Parallels between Leroux and LND

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One weird thing about the characterisation of LND-Raoul -- he *knows* he is behaving badly, he despises himself for doing it, and yet it is *because* he despises himself that he does it; he is trapped in a very recognisably human vicious circle -- is that it is actually an echo of the original Raoul from Leroux's novel, who is a very different character, but shares this trait of finding himself behaving hurtfully towards Christine (usually out of his own wounded feelings), being painfully conscious of this and regretting it even as he is doing it, and yet being seemingly unable to stop.

This is almost certainly a complete coincidence, but maybe it's one reason why I didn't find the character entirely unrelatable...