Honor In Cyrano De Bergerac

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Honor:Worth dying for? In the play “Cyrano de Bergerac” by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano, an honorable man who is hopelessly in love with the beautiful woman Roxane, makes an agreement with the man Roxane loves, Christian. The agreement uses Cyrano’s soul and Christian’s good looks to win over Roxane, but when Christian dies in battle, the secret is never revealed. Years later, Cyrano is mortally wounded by a log that was dropped on him, and in his dying breaths confesses his love to Roxane. Cyrano dies an honorable death. Cyrano dies an honorable death because he stands up to his greatest fear. In the beginning of the story, Cyrano confesses his love of Roxane to his best friend, Le Bret. Then when Le Bret encourages him to tell Roxane, he says …show more content…
When the vicomte Valvert insults Cyrano’s poor dress after Cyrano kicked the actress Montfleury off stage at the Hotel de Bourgogne, Cyrano responds, “My foppery is of the inner man… I plume myself with independence and straightforwardness” (Rostand 30). When Cyrano is dying outside of the convent where Roxane has been a nun for 15 years, he says in his delirium, “With what despite of all I carry forth unblemished and unbent… and that is… my plume” (Rostand 161). In the first quotation, Cyrano is telling Valvert that even though his dress is poor, he has good character and morals to make up for it. When Cyrano says he has “independence,” he means that has no patron, no one to rule over him or make decisions for him, and that he has the freedom to do as he wishes. When he says that he has “straightforwardness,” he is saying that he possesses honesty and truthfulness, and that he is always sincere. The second quotation is saying that Cyrano still has his good character and morals when he dies. Cyrano says, “With what despite of all” referring to his deception of Roxane through Christian, and now that he has confessed to Roxane, his “plume” is once again unblemished and unbent, his “plume” being his independence and straightforwardness. He also says that his plume is “unblemished and unbent,” showing that he still has his good character throughout his life. This shows that Cyrano died
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