Cyrano De Bergerac :: Cyrano Bergerac

Cyrano De Bergerac   Ever since birth, Cyrano De Bergerac has had an enormous, revolting nose. He has become to a greater extent and more ego 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 somatogeneticly against male attackers of both the physical and verbal nature, but when almost women he becomes incredibly bashful and is alone unable to communicate.   Cyrano has unknowingly created a sort of psychological trap in which women are kept on the outside and men are rationalize to roam within. Lacking arrogance around women, he is forced to pour out his heart out on to letters and is deprived of any large-minded of physical contact with the opposite gender. Without confidence, a mans attempts at any var. of a relationship with a woman are almost evermore thwarted because in order for a woman to be attracted to a man, she must first see confidence in him. Since Cyrano has no confidence in his ability with women, he is stuck in a never-ending beat of rejection and loneliness.   He is completely confident, almost arrogant, in his fighting and literary abilities, as demonstrated by his defeat and humiliation of Valvert in Act I. In a captivating display of intelligence and physical ability, he defeats Valvert in a swordfight while he composes a poem poking athletics at him. Evidently Cyrano has the potential to be a great man, blush a hero. The problem originates within his inability to act normally around a woman he is attracted to, much like the majority of new adolescent boys. This lack of confidence in one area of his keep quickly spreads and begins to affect his everyday life, as shown in Act IV when his desperation for a female partner leads him to risk his life on a daily basis by delivering love letters across enemy lines on foot.   Given that Roxane only rea lly knows her lover finished his letters, she builds an image of him in her mind that corresponds with the level of passion incorporated in to the letters. The image she has envisioned is of a young, healthy, good-looking, strong man whom she finds in Christian.