Cyrano De Bergerac: Edmond Rostand

Cyrano de Bergerac In the drama, Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand incorporates three different characters who come together to create this comedic, romantic, yet tragic play. Cyrano de Bergerac takes place in the beautiful city of Paris in 1640. Cyrano, who is the main character in the story, is not the most attractive man to lay your eyes upon. In fact, some would say he was the ugliest man of his time. No one was fond of his looks because his nose was bigger than you could ever imagine! Despite his lack of an appealing appearance, he was a smart man with a good heart and soul. Cyrano has many incredible character traits; however, he also has some that
Roxane loved Christian and Christian loved Roxane, even though they had never met. Despite the fact that Christian had all that Cyrano ever wanted, Cyrano wanted to help give Christian the right words to say. In Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano proclaims, “well, why not borrow it? And in return Ill borrow your good looks” (Rostand 78). Cyrano’s thought process here is that he can “borrow” Christians good looks. However, Christian is the only one getting credit because he’s borrowing Cyrano’s romantic vibes. Cyrano continues, “I don’t see why I shouldn’t give you words to woo her with” (Rostand 78). This is absolutely incredible, most men would be tremendously jealous and would do anything to get Roxane to hate that man and love them instead. Cyrano does not want to be enemy’s with Christian, instead he wants to help him and be a good friend. His willingness to help others effects his fait in a positive way. Roxane ended up loving Christian for his “soul”, which was Cyrano, instead of his stunning
However, he did express his love towards her to a friend in the beginning of the play. He begins to explain to his friend the wonder and beauty of his love, “I dream too…With such a girl on my arm, under the moon. My heart lifts, I forget my curse” (Rostand 39). “She can knit grace from a twine of air. The heavens sit in every gesture” (Rostand 38). Cyrano truly loves Roxane and dreams about her being his. Roxane means the world to him and Cyrano would do absolutely anything for her. Later on in the play, when Cyrano is old and alone, he reads a letter that he had wrote to Roxane, that was from “Christian”. Roxane noticed that he was saying it in such a powerful meaningful way. That’s when she realized it was Cyrano all along. Right before Cyrano takes his last breath Roxane says in a sorrowful tone, “My love, my only love” (Rostand