Thursday, March 25, 2010

Iris Murdoch once said "we can only learn to love by loving". This is certaintley true about Rostrand's charactrer Roxanne in the play Cyrano De Breger. Roxanne understands the true meaning of love through a series of unfortunate events that happen in this play. Roxanne is a round character that loses her husband in war, only to relize that her true love is alive. Though Roxanne can never be with her true love, she has suffered the most thus, makes her the character that has loved most truely. Rostrand writes this play with two male actors, Christan and Cyrano. Roxanne loves Christan for his physical beauty and Cyrano for his inner soul. Roxanne marries Christian and learns a hard lesson that loves comes from within. In Act Three, Roxanne learns that her love for Christan is shallow but the love she feels for Cyrano is true. Thus, makes her the character that loves most truely.

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