Both Uses of
deception
in
The Phantom of the Opera
- A few rays of light, a wan, sinister light, that seemed to have been stolen from an expiring luminary, fell through some opening or other upon an old tower that raised its pasteboard battlements on the stage; everything, in this deceptive light, adopted a fantastic shape.†
Chpt 6 *deceptive = misleading
- After the deceptions and illusions of the torture-chamber, the precision of the details of that quiet little middle-class room seemed to have been invented for the express purpose of puzzling the mind of the mortal rash enough to stray into that abode of living nightmare.†
Chpt 26deceptions = instances of intentionally misleading; or things done to mislead
Definition:
the act of lying to or misleading someone; or something that misleads