Cyrano Plays Deceit to Win Love

This is easily proven with the fact that even with Cyrano’s constant persuasion, Christian eventually feels that he needs to tell the truth about his deception with the love letters to Roxane. This continues until Roxane has to figure it out herself when she realizes, “.... How can you read now? It’s dark. And for fourteen years you played the part of an old friend who came to be amusing!... It was you,” (171-172) In actuality, Christian is a regular, fictional character in love. He’s willing to do anything to impress Roxane, but Cyrano’s deception continues, even after Christian’s death, for his own personal gain. Christian’s character also displays self-esteem issues when it comes to his personality, even if he obviously excels in physical attributes, as shown here, “Then she may be one of those aesthetes… Intellectuals, you call them — How can I talk to a woman in that style? I have no wit. This fine manner of speaking and of writing nowadays — Not for me! I am a soldier — and afraid,” (77-82).

This made Roxane not fall in love for Christian by his looks but instead by his personality. Roxane changes throughout the story by changing the way she loves him from looks too personality. This was a great way to make Roxane fall in love with Christian faster. Christian made Roxane fall more in love with him with the help of his good friend Cyrano.

In addition, Shakespeare intermingles the play with the idea of appearance versus reality, highlighting how truelove can exist within even the curst and is absent amongst even the most attractive. As the play progresses, we see how true this is, as Bianca and Katherina contrast one another on the interior as well, yet Katherina?s true love underneath, allows her to dwell in an effective relationship. As we know, Petruchio?s love is obvious yet Katherina?s shrewish nature masks her true love for Petruchio - proving the deceptiveness of appearances. On the other hand, even though Bianca has many desperate suitors we see how shrewish she really is as she questions, ?Am I your bird? (5.1)?. Bianca?s rhetorical question and indignant tone towards Petruchio highlights her lack of respect and her internal shrewish personality. Moreover, Bianca?s interior personality

You ask me whom I love? The answer should be clear to you! Whom else would I love but the most beautiful woman in the world?” (Act one, Scene V, Page 49) Cyrano feels that Roxane is one of a kind and like a god to him. His insecurity plays a big part on him feeling she’s too good for him, and that he dreams and can only dream of being with her. The Duenna tells Cyrano that Roxane wants to speak with him about something in private. Cyrano agrees to meet Roxane at Ragueneau’s shop, knowing all of this is about to happen Cyrano becomes worried and over whelmed. “The Duenna: My lady wishes me to ask her valiant cousin where she can see him in private. Cyrano: see me? The Duenna: Yes. She has things to tell you. When she leaves the church, where can she go to talk with you? Cyrano: Where? . . . I . . . My God! . . . Where? Cyrano: At . . . at Ragueneau’s shop Ragueneau, the pastry cook . . . . Cyrano: Me! She wants to see me! Le Bret: I see your sadness has vanished! Cyrano: Ah, for whatever reason, she knows I exist! Le Bret: Please be calm. Cyrano: No! I’m going to be frenzied and turbulent! I need a whole army to vanish! I have ten hearts , twenty arms! It’s no longer enough for me to cut down dwarfs . . .I need giants!” (Act one, Scene VI, page(s) 52-54) Le Bret tries to calm down Cyrano. Cyrano’s insecurity gets in the way once again & he is frightened to speak to Roxane. He finally

Cyrano and Christian learned this the hard way. As each letter arrived Roxane fell more and more in love with the writer. When Christian and Cyrano go to war, she follows them there to talk to Christian about “his” letters. She says, “Now, ‘tis yourself that doth outshine yourself; And for your soul alone I love you now..” (Rostand 151).

Cyrano claims to have “a large heart. [A] symbol of courage and of courtesy, [which] indicates a nature kind and keen, witty and warm and liberal” Cyrano upholds these standards by doing things such as interrupting the play in the hall of the hotel burgundy because Montfleury’s acting impedes upon the great art and Cyrano must “have [the] theatre cleansed of this great boil” for the good of all the fans. At the Siege of Arras, Cyrano writes to Roxanne twice a day under Christian's name, risking his own life to walk through the enemy lines at night so he can send the letters. Cyrano does this so Roxanne can rest easy while Christian fights in the army. Cyrano also distracts De Guiche while Roxanne and Christian get married even though he truly loves Roxanne. All of these torturous acts that Cyrano puts himself through for the good of others excellently portrays his heroism.

By denouncing the value of physical appearance, Roxane renders Christian an insignificant and pointless part of the composite romantic hero. Nonetheless, his death also prevents Cyrano from telling Roxane the truth and perhaps from making a moral mistake—dishonestly

Cyrano's conduct toward Roxane can be foolish as he let his physical appearance impact his confidence and his opinion of himself. Instead of trying to win Roxane over as himself, he gave up and decided to help Christian win the woman he loved. Cyrano was foolish to use his charming personality to give away the only woman he loved. He should have trusted that his personality alone would win Roxane over. Cyrano said, "Knowing myself so ugly, so alone...She might laugh at me"(Hooker 42). His fear of embarrassment resulted in him giving up easily. If he had tried to overcome his fear earlier, instead of wasting time helping Christian, he would have been with his love for a longer period of

Christian was obsessed with Roxane’s beauty and fell in love with her and never looked at another girl after seeing her. While, Chris fell love with one of Roxane’s close friends something that Edmond Rostand would never approve of. When Christian found out Roxane truly loved Cyrano he was honorable and told him to tell Roxane the truth about who was writing the letters. While, in the movie he just ran away never saying anything about him not writing the letters. The movie strips a once honorable character into

“A great nose may be an index of a great soul”(Rostand 30). This quote by Cyrano is one of many interesting quotes that the play Cyrano de Bergerac contains. The play is a dramatic comedy written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand about a cadet named Cyrano who has fallen in love with the beautiful women Roxane. On the contrary, Roxanne, which is a movie based off of the play Cyrano de Bergerac, takes place in the 1980’s and takes the same plot. The two stories have many comparisons and contrast in many ways.

His conversation with Cyrano at the end of Act II, as they formulate their plan to manipulate Roxane into courting Christian, is highly important in helping the reader understand what Christian’s actual motivations are. Christian says to Cyrano, “I wish I had had your wit…” and later on laments that he cannot communicate with Roxane “Because… because [he is] a fool!” (2.558). He is head over heels for Roxane, just as she is for him. Despite his strikingly good looks, he knows he is not intellectual enough for Roxane, and this insecurity is what prompts him to agree to Cyrano’s

Many people love romantic comedies. Some of these stories are based around misunderstandings, which add humor to the plot. This, of course is similar to Rostand’s play Cyrano De Bergerac, but Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, is centered around a relationship full of deceit. It has a pleasant facade, but when the viewer digs deeper into it, they find out the dark reality of the relationship of the main couple. Communication is vital to any relationship. A group of friends need to communicate openly in order to remain friends. The same thing applies to spouses. For the purpose of this essay, Cyrano and Roxane from Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, and Nora and Torvald from Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” will be compared. The relationships of Nora and Torvald, and Roxane and Cyrano are different in many ways but they have one thing in common, a lack of communication. Thus, by this

Cyrano comforts himself approaching his death by assuring himself that death will not get between him and his moral code. Cyrano has been severely injured prior to his weekly meeting with Roxane. Le Bret and Ragueneau heard about the incident and hurried down to the convent to see if Cyrano was okay. Cyrano, due to blood loss and fatal injuries to his head, started to hallucinate. His hallucinations include being face to face with “death,” quite literally, which leads to him speaking to “death” in his last speech moments away from death. As he is confronting death, he explains that he doesn't hope to win but he will still fight until he has fulfilled his code of honor: “I’ve never needed hope of victory to make me fight! The noblest battles are always fought in vain!”

This paper begins by discussing Catullus’ genuine love of life as expressed in poem 5 and introduced in the first line. It considers poem 5 as rather less cynical than many of Catullus’ others, and therefore uniquely revealing. It then examines the first triad, which expresses defiance of convention, and the second, which expresses the brevity of life and the urgency of love. The enumeration of kisses is then discussed in particular detail with comparisons to poems 7 and 48. Finally, it shows that Catullus’ usual cynicism, which is missing throughout most of the poem, appears just at the end, displaying Catullus’ ingenuity.

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