Edmond Rostand

appearance is important, and having beauty isn’t necessarily a bad thing, true love is more about internal attributes and not what’s on the outside. In “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Edmond Rostand uses conflict, tone, and diction to express the theme that true love is less about beauty and more about what’s on the inside. Edmond Rostand illustrates that one’s appearance is not the only factor to consider…

When you fall in love someone but not able to confess your love to her because of your self-image and she is extremely pretty, in Cyrano De Bergerac play by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano is worried about his appearance because he has such an enormous nose. This is the most important of this play because some people are judging a book by its cover. Cyrano is a poet, swordsman and smart but he is really ugly outside. Opposite from Cyrano, Christian is really pretty, handsome but unintelligent and dull…

Panache The French word Panache’s popularity is associated with the flamboyant and reckless courage portrayed by Cyrano De Bergerac. Written by Edmond Rostand, the play Cyrano De Bergerac portrays the character with the same name as a lovesick cadet in the French army and as a loud and often pompous man who likes to pick fights with anyone he disagrees with. Despite those qualities, Cyrano is a character readers will love due to the one characteristic he will always carry with him—his panache.…

humans cannot control, nor can we change. Some people tend to just go on with their everyday lives and not bat an eye; while on the contrary, some people suffer in their own self-conscience due to a personal flaw they have. In Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, the main character Cyrano struggles with this problem because of his precariously large nose. Another character in the book Christian is self conscious about his literacy. And as result he is not confident in his love for Roxane who…

by holding back.” ~(Barbara De Angelis) Love is something precious and extremely valuable. It is a delicate yet wonderful thing that should always be cherished, but the road to love is quite the bumpy one. With “Cyrano De Bergerac”, a book by Edmond Rostand, and “O’ Were I Loved as I Desire to be” a poem written by Alfred Lord Tennyson, they both collectively collaborate to get this message across. However, these texts also have significant differences as well. Case in point, the pieces use…

In the play, Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, The main protagonist, who is Cyrano, has many problems in his life including a grotesque appearance. He fights for what he wants, then doesn’t get it, he commits great acts, then becomes impoverished. He doesn’t end the way he should have ended, But did he lead a good life with his wit and intelligence? He may have had a noble and fulfilling life, but it wasn’t the best one. In this drama by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano, after his meeting with…

Not Far From Strange There is really something in common on the book “Cyrano de Bergerac” by Edmond Rostand and “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia plath. They both practice literature and writing. “Cyrano de Bergerac” is about a nobleman (cyrano) serving as a soldier in the french army. He has many talents within him poetry, musician and a remarkable duelist. He has an extremely large nose which prevents him from expressing his love to his cousin Roxanne. How will that connects with the book “The…

This is due to the fact that love brings about a heightened awareness of another individual's well being that causes an individual to make sacrifices. This essence of love is illustrated in Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac. In Act 2 Scene 6, Roxanne speaks with Cyrano about another man named Christian, with whom she is infatuated with. However, this does not bode well for Cyrano, seeing as he loves her. Roxanne proceeds to task Cyrano…

French poet and dramatist, Edmond Rostand, in his romantic drama, Cyrano de Bergerac, depicts the major differences between courage and cowardice through contrasts in his characters. His purpose is to give the reader different impressions for each character. Rostand establishes a dramatic and challenging tone in order to effectively convey to his readers of early 17th-century France that there is a distinct difference how courage and cowardice can define the characters, as well as the major…

A great poet and dramatist, Edmond Rostand, in his play, Cyrano De Bergerac, outlines the importance of inner and outer beauty and deception that comes with it. Rostand’s purpose is to show how people’s perceptions of themselves can cause problems. Rostand adopts a dramatic, but humorous, tone in order to convey to his readers that everyone is different with their own flaws and perfections, so trying to be like someone else is being untrue to you, which can cause problems. The main…