Summary Of The Play Cyrano De Bergerac

The disease of being human is to feel emotion-- be it positive or negative. In the play Cyrano de Bergerac, written by Edmond Rostand, there are instances of heavy and tragic scenes and instances of relief through comedy. To start, Cyrano de Bergerac is a play derived in the middle of the fifteenth century and written in 1897. The play was set in the time of the Thirty-Years War and tends to focus mainly on the conflict between the Spanish and the French. The play revolves around love, honor, tragedy, and conflict. Cyrano is known to be the heroic protagonist with a wistful mind and strong consciousness, but a hideous and protruding nose. He is a difficult character to dislike, has a way with words, and his only downfall is his mind. The author of this work, Edmond Rostand, wrote the play about Cyrano’s life. The play concentrates on Cyrano's love for the sought-after Roxane, whom he is obliged to court on behalf of a more handsome, but inarticulate Christian de Neuvillette. In the play Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand incorporates elements of comedy to lighten the occasional tragic scenes by integrating literal

In the scene, Cyrano pretends to be a foreigner that has fallen from the sky. He does such to delay Comte de Guiche from interfering with the private wedding between Roxanne and Christian. A prime example of the humorous actions of Cyrano can be found in the excerpt, "CYRANO. (Imitates the sound of waves with his voice, and their movement by large, vague gestures.)’Hoo! ... Hoo! ...'" (Rostand 124). This shows Cyrano acting like a fool to deter Comte de Guiche from venturing further toward Roxanne's house and adds in comedy the same instance. This gives comedic relief to the fact that Cyrano has lost Roxanne to Christian and allows the reader a break from the heavy scenes before and to