Cyrano De Bergerac Character Analysis

Have you ever felt insecure about the way you look, or what people think of you? In the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, a man named Cyrano helps his friend Christian woo, or fool, the girl of his dreams because he doesn’t feel like Roxane would ever fall for him. Cyrano lets his big nose and insecurities hold him back from finding true love. Because both men are in love with her, one can learn a lot from the story and the characters actions surrounding their deaths. Cyrano and Christian’s actions and death scenes simultaneously support the theme that inner beauty is more important than outer beauty.
Because Christian is in love with a girl, Roxane, Cyrano agrees to help him win her over with the combination of Christian’s good looks …show more content…
He once again sacrifices his own happiness, and the last moments of his life, to be with Roxane and make her happy. After Cyrano is fatally hit on the head with a log, he goes to see Roxane and doesn’t let anything get in his way. He tells her, ‘Yes, I said to him, “Excuse me, but this is Saturday, the day when I always keep a certain appointment. Nothing can make me miss it. Come back in an hour.”’ (5.5). Cyrano’s “visitor” that he is talking about is his approaching death. However, he is so in love with Roxane that he says, “Nothing can make me miss it,” and finds excuses not to tell her that he is hurt because he doesn’t want her to be upset. Cyrano always comes to see her and doesn’t let any excuses allow him to miss it. He doesn’t have to visit Roxane but he takes the time to go out of his way for her happiness. Cyrano’s selfless actions help build his character and inner beauty. Cyrano asks to read the farewell letter that Christian, secretly Cyrano, wrote to Roxane and reads aloud, “My heart has never left you for a moment, and in the next world my love for you will still be as boundless,” (5.5). His feelings and compassion towards Roxane outshine his physical features and looks. He wrote those words for her when he thought he was going to die and now that he is, he finally gets the chance to read them to Roxane. In the end she discovers the truth and that Cyrano is the one she loved all along. Looks truly didn’t matter to Roxane, and if Cyrano hadn’t let his insecurities get the best of him, maybe he and Roxane would have ended up

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