Cyrano De Bergerac :: Cyrano Bergerac

Cyrano De Bergerac   Ever since birth, Cyrano De Bergerac has had an enormous, revolting nose. He has become more and more self conscious about it as time has progressed, and now as a grown man it has created a serious lack of self esteem. He is confident when he is in a situation in which he is able to defend himself physically against male attackers of both the physical and verbal nature, but when virtually women he becomes incredibly bashful and is wholly unable to communicate.   Cyrano has unknowingly created a carriage of psychological trap in which women are kept on the immaterial and men are free to roam within. Lacking trustingness around women, he is forced to pour his heart out on to letter and is deprived of any kind of physical contact with the opposite gender. Without confidence, a mans attempts at any kind of a relationship with a muliebrity are almost always thwarted because in order for a woman to be attracted to a man, she must first see c onfidence in him. Since Cyrano has no confidence in his ability with women, he is stuck in a never-ending cycle of rejection and loneliness.   He is completely confident, almost arrogant, in his fighting and literary abilities, as demonstrated by his defeat and mortification of Valvert in Act I. In a captivating display of news and physical ability, he defeats Valvert in a swordfight while he composes a poem poking fun at him. Evidently Cyrano has the potential to be a great man, even a hero. The problem originates within his unfitness to act normally around a woman he is attracted to, lots like the majority of modern adolescent boys. This lack of confidence in one area of his life quickly spreads and begins to affect his everyday life, as shown in Act IV when his desperation for a female accomplice leads him to risk his life on a daily basis by delivering love letters across enemy lines on foot.   Given that Roxane exactly really knows her lover through his le tters, she builds an image of him in her mind that corresponds with the take of passion incorporated in to the letters. The image she has envisioned is of a young, healthy, good-looking, virile man whom she finds in Christian.