Examples Of Love In Cyrano De Bergerac

The Last of Love Many love stories around the world have ended in a joyous or a tragic mood. Thus, in the romantic play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, much drama and love takes place. However, there is a love triangle among the main characters, Cyrano de Bergerac, Christian, and Roxane. Subsequently, the death scenes of Christian and Cyrano would illustrate significant aspects of physical and intangible love in humans.
In the scene leading up to Christian’s death, Christian is in despair when he realizes that Roxane only now loved him for the wit he did not have, but which Cyrano possessed as he cries out to Cyrano that “She loves only my soul now!” (Act 4.9 p.174). Christian’s death signifies the passing of Roxane’s physical

181). However, that quote is significant because Cyrano is not actually Christian but neither is Christian being mourned, instead the

201-202). Thus she understands that her mourning for the romantic hero is over but now has a new love as Cyrano dies. Therefore, Roxane grieves over this realization because she has lost him all over again as she exclaims, “I’ve loved only one man, and I’ve lost him twice!” (Act 5.6 p.204). The reason she says this is because it signified that she will be losing again the spiritual love that Cyrano can no longer give as he is dying as she did when Christian died. As Le Bret watches the interplay between Cyrano and Roxane he proclaims, “No! No! A man like you, a poet with such a great and noble heart-- you can’t die this way! It’s too stupid! Too unjust!” (Act 5.6 p. 205). Le Bret’s outburst illustrates the loving grief over Cyrano’s physical and intellectual death; furthermore, Cyrano’s last words show the dramatic way his soul and wit still tried to survive as he makes one last joke to Roxane when he says he will take away in death “My white plume.” (Act 5.6 p.