Cyrano De Bergerac Summary

A love triangle is a romantic relationship involving three people and the love triangle in the play Cyrano de Bergerac involves the three main characters Cyrano, Christian, and Roxanne. Romantic love is conditional, spiritual love is unconditional and both Cyrano and Christian love Roxanne, but Cyrano’s love for Roxanne is a spiritual love. The love he has for Roxanne is shown in his words spoken, whether they were coming from him or Christian, and his actions. Cyrano shows this spiritual love for Roxanne by giving up his own happiness to fulfill hers, and he does this when helping Christian pursue Roxanne by writing the letters. Cyrano's unconditional love for Roxanne is also shown when he promises her to protect Christian. But out of all the actions he had shown that exhibited his love for Roxanne, the thing that revealed his unconditional love for Roxanne the most was that, even after Christian had died, Cyrano still kept his secret from Roxanne. Cyrano had continued to allow Roxanne to believe that his words were Christians and he let this continue for fifteen years, and only was it until he was on his deathbed that he revealed the truth to Roxanne. This all goes to show that

If, you, whom they all fear – Cyrano: Oh well, I will defend your little Baron. Roxanne: Will you? Just for me? Because I have always been – your friend! Cyrano: Of course… Roxanne: Will you be his friend? Cyrano: I will be his friend. Roxanne: And never let him fight a duel? Cyrano: No – never” (pg. 76-77). Cyrano’s unconditional love for Roxanne is also shown when he promises to her that he would protect Christian and he is once again having a moment of selflessness by putting Roxanne’s happiness before his own even it meant risking his own in the process. Cyrano is seeing how love gives someone the power to break you because, even though she may not be meaning to, Roxanne is breaking