World Literature Essay

By now, it is obvious to the readers that Cyrano is in love with Roxane, but not to Christian. He is very oblivious to the whole situation but eventually figures it all out. It should

6. What specific actions did Hammurabi take in his attempt to provide for the good order of society and the basic welfare of his subjects?

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 sacrifices his life, "Risk your life every morning before breakfast to send a letter,” when sending his letters to Roxane (Rostand 130). Cyrano puts himself in danger multiple times a day just to contact Roxane. He risks his life for Roxane, who isn’t even in love with him. This action portrays Cyrano as a character who is willing to do anything for someone he loves dearly. In another instance, Cyrano sacrifices his life knowingly, so he can see his love, Roxane, one last time by, “[he] has killed himself, Madame, coming here” (190). This action reveals that Cyrano cares more about Roxane than the wellbeing of himself. He wants to make Roxane happy, so he gives up his life for her. This example of selfless sacrifice characterizes Cyrano as being courageous and honorable. Cyrano’s selfless sacrifices demonstrates that he is willing to give up something sacred for something he believes is greater than

Passions drive people, and the townspeople in “The Lottery” and Paul in “The Rocking-Horse Winner” are no different. Each of the members of the unnamed town has a strong passion for tradition. The original black box used for the lottery is described as being, “lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born” (Jackson 251). This sentence gives the reader an understanding that the lottery is an ancient tradition that has become an integral part of the town’s lifestyle. Such a tradition can only be carried on for this length of time if the people are passionate about preserving the tradition. Paul had a passion to be wealthy as a way to prove to his mother that he was lucky. From a young age, he saw that his family always wanted more money to support a better lifestyle, yet

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

“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.

First and foremost is the appeal to emotions. All of the other facets of romanticism can be related to the emotional appeal in Cyrano de Bergerac. Because strong emotional appeal is perhaps the most important method used by the author to create identity with the reader, especially in romantic works, the actions which elicit the emotional responses must, then, show a great deal about the character. The character's motives and philosophies can be determined

The main character, Cleofilas at the beginning of the story had a painted picture that all romances are just like the ones she saw on her television from back home. However unfortunately not so long after their marriage began, she came to the conclusion that it is not how she had always imagined. One of the subjects the author, Cisneros, wanted to bring attention to the idea of how when the male in the relationship is the bread-winner,

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.

Book I as he demonstrates a way of detecting a man’s true conviction to his moral and

During the course I realized how large of a role art plays in helping create cultures and developing and preserving the history of civilizations. I find it interesting that when there’s no written history or any historical buildings, cultures will always make their own ancient past grander than what it really is. The Israelites, the Greeks and Romans all tell stories of their history that has no written proof. It seems that we as people want to have a connection to our roots and to understand where we come from. This is why I believe that most people want to believe in a higher power.

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?