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Cyrano De Bergerac - School Essays

Cyrano De Bergerac

Every person who reads a classic tragedy knows that the protagonist has a “fatal flaw” that overtakes him in the end. is no different. Cyrano, however, seems to have more than one. One flaw could be the way he thinks of himself. The other could be his love for Roxane.
Cyrano is a wonderful thinker, but he has problems with his self-image. He is a magnificent poet, which he definitely knows. He is a renowned fighter, which he also knows. He has proven these two things repeatedly, and in doing that, has inflated his ego. The one thing that can bring his ego down is his face. Cyrano thinks he is ugly…and nothing can change that. He knows that he is a great man, but his self-esteem ...

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in love. The recipient of this gift is his cousin, Roxane. He writes her many poems, but does not let her know. She tells him that she loves Christian, one of the Gascons of the Carbon de Castel Jaloux. Christian has the looks, but no creativity, and since Cyrano has the creativity and not the looks, he decides to love Roxane through Christian. He supplies Christian with the words to say and the letters to send to Roxane, and she never knows. Cyrano gets so caught up in the ‘game’ that he forgets that it is Christian, and not him, who is winning Roxane. When the Gascons are sent to war, Cyrano promises Roxane two things: One, to try to keep him safe when they go off to war, and Two, to make sure he writes her every day. Because of his love for Roxane, Cyrano risks his life daily to cross the enemy lines to send letters to her. After Christian dies on the front, he continues to visit Roxane in a convent, until the day that an enemy drops a log on his head. He dies at the ...

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Added: 10/20/2005 10:04:22 AM
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