The Vile Aspect of Society in Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Before Christian’s death, Roxane says that she would love Christian even if he were ugly because of his affection in “his letters” but in reality that affection was being written by Cyrano. Christian knew he was going to die during the war considering he was already famished and gaunt so he told Cyrano specifically that Roxane would loves Christian even if he were ugly and that he knew Cyrano loves Roxane because he risks his life by crossing enemy lines just to send her a letter everyday. Being the man of honor, Cyrano did not tell Roxane that “Christian’s soul” was actually him, for the reason of Roxane mourning over Christian. While Christian was dying, Cyrano whispers in Christian’s ear, “ I told her everything. It’s still you she loves!” (4.9.194). Even though he may have lied to Christian, but he couldn’t let him die with the thought of Roxane not loving him. Fifteen years later, Roxane finally learns the truth of how it was Cyrano writings those letters. Cyrano requests Roxane to let him read the last letter given to Roxane “from Christian,” then as he is reading it; he read it with the same tone as the night under the balcony. In the light of the reading, she claims, “How well you read… that letter...A voice that I’m not hearing for the first time! It was you” (217). Roxane soon realising that Cyrano has always loved her and now doesn’t want him to leave. Cyrano’s death happened after this

The book, Cyrano de Bergerac and the movie, Roxanne have many similarities and differences. This includes the plot, characterization, setting, conflict, and irony.

From the play Cyrano de Bergerac, two of the main characters are at odds fighting to win the heart of the same girl. Cyrano and Christian play as competing romantic heroes in their story, both hopeless dreamers of love and lust, both bold in their own aspects as well as incredibly insecure all at once. They also share the quality of great loyalty, and willingness to drop anything to come to the rescue of a friend. Physically, they are opposites; Christian is beautiful, and Cyrano thinks himself an atrocity. Their intellectual capabilities are also at completely different ends of the spectrum; Christian is a bumbling fool, and Cyrano can become a master at whatever task he chooses. In the aspect of poetry and the art of words, Cyrano is a true Shakespeare, and Christian is the equivalent of a second grader at best. These characters seem to be foils and, at the same time, they are wildly alike.

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand is about two men named Cyrano and Christian. Cyrano is a gallant soldier, brilliant, witty, poet with many tragedies, lover with a face that does not match his personality. Christian is the opposite of Cyrano. Christian has really good looks, however he lacks intelligence and wit. Cyrano and Christian are both in love with Cyrano’s cousin, Roxane. Roxane is a very beautiful and smart woman. Cyrano and Christian worked together to try to get Roxane to love Christian. Cyrano and Christian both went to war with the Cadets. Christian unfortunately dies after getting shot. Cyrano comforted Roxane and acted like her “gazette” when Christian died. Even though Cyrano is in love with Roxane he still mourns Christian’s

Hannie Rayson explores different attitude on her play 'Inheritance'; Julia, a feminist. William, a gay man. Felix, a student activist. Girlie, a wog-hater. Lyle, coon hater. Maureen, an opportunistic race-based politician. And Nugget, an aboriginal man. Due to these various characteristic, lots of them suffered because of the thing called "prejudice" particularly William, Lyle, and Nugget. However, it doesn't apply to all cases because it was depending on the emotion and belief of the person involved. Hannie Rayson shows this in an explicit way; such as, when Lyle hanged himself at the end of the play. You can notice throughout the play that he is having difficulty in life that leads him to depression.

While many works of fiction portray love through a utopian perspective where true love is easy to achieve, the story of Cyrano follows a failed quest for intimacy, where Cyrano’s own tragic flaws stop him from achieving the romance he dreams of. It is these same tragic flaws that help to define Cyrano as a tragic hero in Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, and it is these same flaws that eventually lead to Cyrano’s tragic fall. However, some of these flaws are also the admirable traits of the large-nosed hero’s character that also help to define him as hero. Due to this fact, Cyrano is able to gain respect from others, but never truly reaches his ultimate goal of having Roxane’s love. While Cyrano never truly experiences Roxane’s

The protagonist holds to his immature beliefs that by looking, acting and maintaining a false façade as a “dangerous character” (Boyle,114) it would bestow on him an the badness he desires.

Cyrano de Bergerac, the Play vs. Roxane, the Movie In an effort to attract the audience of today, the producers of the movie Roxane retold the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rustond in a way that is appropriate and at the same time appealing. In order to give the audience of today a story that they can understand and relate to, the producers have adjusted and manipulated the play itself. As a result, several similarities and differences exist between the play Cyrano de Bergerac and its movie reproduction. The characteristics of a romantic hero in Rustond’s time is not equivalent to the characteristics of a romantic hero today. In the play for example, Cyrano, a very ugly, old, yet intellectual man who loved Roxane, his cousin, with

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” (Confucius) Cyrano’s insecurity of his nose effects his relationship with Roxane. In Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano De Bergerac, Cyrano’s insecure and eloquent self-perception results in Cyrano’s companionship & loving in his relationship with both Christian & Roxane. Cyrano’s level of eloquence helps him combat the insults of his nose. Cyrano is a poetic, witty, & eloquent man who is insecure & has trouble showing his true feelings for Roxane .Cyrano and Christian work together to win Roxane’s heart, and at the end Cyrano allows love to kill him, even after Roxane discovers & reciprocates his feelings.

Appeal to emotions, individualism, and intellectual achievement were three important elements of Romanticism. This essay will explore the degree to which Cyrano de Bergerac exemplifies these elements of Romanticism.

Edmond Rostand 's Cyrano de Bergerac is considered to be a Chivalric Romance but it also contains humor throughout. The play uses comedy throughout all of the acts for a variety of reasons. Cyrano who is the main character of the play is also the largest comic influence. With Cyrano, we see him develop through comedy and learn more about his character with it, and it is not only used by Cyrano but also many other characters. Comedy is used in a variety of ways throughout Cyrano de Bergerac such as wordplay and sarcasm. The comedy is all used for different reasons, nevertheless, the humor in Cyrano plays an important role in the play.

In Cyrano de Bergerac, the complexity of love is displayed through Roxane, Christian, and Cyrano’s characters. Cyrano loves Roxane more than anyone else in the world, but he’s too shy to tell her, due to feeling so ugly because of his very large, very long nose. At first, Cyrano has Eros for Roxane, or sexual attraction.

Through history people have tended to judge the lives of other by what they see on the outside, and completely disregard their actually character. “Stereotyping in the World” today has become a greater and greater problem has history moves on. Some have been known to look past these cases such as Reginald Rose’s book Twelve Angry Men. The play has been shown that one voice can change the thoughts of many by getting past the first layer and breaking it down to their inner person. Twelve Angry Men has showed the theme of “Stereotyping in the World” through the characters’ proper reasoning, communicating, and believing in good faith.

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!”

Throughout the play Cyrano de Bergerac written by Edmond Rostand, the audience comes to hold dearly the heart of the protagonist, Cyrano a strong man with a rather gargantuan nose. It is through discussions and insults concerning his physical attributes that the audience discovers he is in fact in love with the woman he has held close to his heart for many friendly years, his cousin Roxane. Completely unbeknownst to Roxane, Cyrano’s love and admiration for her is not simply on a relative scale as she perceives it to be, but rather the much more drastic level of physical, emotional, and intellectual attraction. As the play is centered on the life of Cyrano, the audience comes to understand the sincerity of the love he feels and devotion he has for his relative and ultimately concludes that he is in fact worthy of the affection from the woman he truly adores. However, is Roxane truly worthy of such a man’s adulation, when in fact her unattainability ever steadily nibbles at Cyrano’s heart making him ultimately feel undeserving of her?