Cyrano De Bergerac: True Beauty

There are many ideas about true beauty, what it is, where it lies, and how to achieve it. A main philosophy of true beauty is that it lies on the inside, Cyrano is a great example of this with his appearance not being the best and his personality being so rich. The story of Cyrano de Bergerac is a marvelous example for the concept of true beauty, Cyrano shows that what is on the inside is more beautiful than looks, and it shows that Cyrano’s beauty showed to Roxanne in the end.
Throughout the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano folds out as an amazing character with wit, brawn, and his capacity to love Roxanne. In the entirety of the story Cyrano is always too afraid to propose his love to Roxanne due to his looks mainly his nose. We learn that Cyrano’s nose is abnormally large and some of his friends think that it is fake; “...oh God no, it can’t be real. It must be detachable.”( Cyrano de Bergerac, Act 1 Pg. 11) His nose is why he’s so afraid to even be in Roxanne’s vicinity,( much less be with her and tell her how he feels towards her. Roxanne …show more content…
True beauty worked well into this story because for Cyrano what was important was on the inside. Many people say that beauty lies on the inside, Roxanne at first was only with Christian for his looks but fell into love for his passionate words which ended up being Cyrano’s. Cyrano can make fun of himself easily because of his strong wit and his nose, “For instance there's a frank aggressive kind. If mine achieved that hypertrophic state, I would call a surgeon to amputate’ Cyrano de bergerac. (Act 1 pg, 21-22.). In the beginning of the play when they are in the theatre Valvert, expresses his wits “that thing of yours is big, what? Very big.” (Cyrano de bergerac, act 1 pg. 21) and it shows who he is. Cyrano the expresses his wits“The war like, train it on the enemy.” (Cyrano de bergerac, Act 1 Pg. 22) which is far more superior than