How Cyrano’s Self-Perception Affects His Relationships With Others
Cyrano is mainly an arrogant, brash,and hindsighted person to most, however he expresses an different side of him to those close to him.In Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano de Bergerac‘s witty,clever,brash, proud, and a sense of self-sacrificing affected his relationship with De Guiche negatively and affected his relationship with Roxanne positively. Cyrano’s sense of pride, and brashfulness, causes him to make a fool out of De Guiche at almost every turn. Cyrano’s sense of self-sacrificing to those close to him, causes Cyrano to never decline an request from Roxanne, even if it is self-harmful. Cyrano being proud, dislikes cowardice, leading to him disliking De Guiche, furthermore Cyrano prides himself as clever and witty, and will find any situation to make a fool out of De Guiche.After De Guiche announces that he hired some brutes to punish Cyrano for beating Valvert. Cyrano made an …show more content…
Being an hind-sighted person or just being brash and reckless, Cyrano fails to see that nothing good will come out of angering an person of rank, and it might cause his downfall. Another example how Cyrano foils De Guiche is that during Roxanne and Christian’s wedding, Roxanne asks Cyrano to delay De Guiche until after the wedding, Cyrano then uses his wits and cleverness to devise up a story to entertain De Guiche and succeeds. “Then…(resuming his natural voice.) The quarter of an hour so I won’t keep you any longer. wedding is over.”(146)
Cyrano is mainly an arrogant, brash,and hindsighted person to most, however he expresses an different side of him to those close to him.In Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyrano de Bergerac‘s witty,clever,brash, proud, and a sense of self-sacrificing affected his relationship with De Guiche negatively and affected his relationship with Roxanne positively. Cyrano’s sense of pride, and brashfulness, causes him to make a fool out of De Guiche at almost every turn. Cyrano’s sense of self-sacrificing to those close to him, causes Cyrano to never decline an request from Roxanne, even if it is self-harmful. Cyrano being proud, dislikes cowardice, leading to him disliking De Guiche, furthermore Cyrano prides himself as clever and witty, and will find any situation to make a fool out of De Guiche.After De Guiche announces that he hired some brutes to punish Cyrano for beating Valvert. Cyrano made an …show more content…
Being an hind-sighted person or just being brash and reckless, Cyrano fails to see that nothing good will come out of angering an person of rank, and it might cause his downfall. Another example how Cyrano foils De Guiche is that during Roxanne and Christian’s wedding, Roxanne asks Cyrano to delay De Guiche until after the wedding, Cyrano then uses his wits and cleverness to devise up a story to entertain De Guiche and succeeds. “Then…(resuming his natural voice.) The quarter of an hour so I won’t keep you any longer. wedding is over.”(146)