Analysis Of A Tragic Play Cyrano De Bergerac

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Cyrano de Bergerac is a tragic comedy, a play which is light and humorous and is composed of jokes and humorous performance. In this play, Cyrano continuously makes the audience laugh by making jokes about his own physical appearance. This play comes very close to being a tragedy, a work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw. In this play Cyrano suffers the consequence of a tragic flaw, when he talks with Roxanne after speaking with Christian and finding out that Roxanne has really fallen in love with him and not with Christian. The conflict between Roxanne and Christian before the battle converses a slight distribution of the two, resulting in christian leaving

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