Theme Of Inner Beauty In Cyrano De Bergerac

When it comes to humans there are two types of beauty, inner and outer. Despite outer beauty being much more visually appealing it can be deceiving, masking the horrid true colors of somebody - their inner beauty. In the play, “Cyrano de Bergerac”, the main theme of the story is that inner beauty shines brighter than outer beauty.

All throughout the play, Cyrano was seen as a man of wit, despite his gargantuan nose. He wrote alluring poetry in his letters to Roxane, he won most duels he was in (and can even speak poetry while doing so), and he always found a clever way to get himself out of situations. His letters made Roxane swoon without even trying-his effortless dexterity and his heart could truly be seen by just reading the words that he wrote to Roxane. However, not all of his poetry is saved

for Roxane--he used his poetry in combat as well.

During the duel between Monsieur de Bergerac and Valvert, Cyrano spoke a wonderful poem, and saying “When I end the refrain, I draw blood” at the end of each verse. In the process of entertaining himself, he intimidates Valvert, and does end up drawing blood at the end of the refrain. As well as write poetry, Monsieur de Bergerac can weasel his way out of sticky situations. For example, when Roxane and Christian were getting married, Cyrano had to find a way to distract De Guiche from interrupting the wedding. He does this by jumping out of a tree onto De Guiche pretending he has just fallen from the moon. He tells him insane stories about his experience in space, and then takes off his hat to reveal his identity before telling the man that Roxane and Christian are now married. This definitely requires a tiny bit of acting skill and

improvisation. All the stories he tells, keeps De Guiche interested and distracted. Cyrano acts quickly, and demonstrates his cleverness once more. Because of all of this, Cyrano de Bergerac is an intelligent individual. Cyrano’s intelligence is overlooked by most, and is judged for his appearance. However, Roxane does nothing of the sort.

Roxane, in the end, falls in love with Cyrano without even realizing it. Nonetheless, in the beginning of the text, Roxane falls in love with a man ,named Christian, she’s seen in the theater. The small glances between Christian and Roxane is what made Roxane fall head over heels for Christian...and his looks. However, Christian discovers that Roxane is especially into men with wit, he decides it might be a good idea to write a letter to her. However, Christian has a good heart, Christian doesn’t have the brightest mind. This leads to an unfortunate series of events, which ends up with Cyrano writing love letters to Roxane for Christian. Later in the play, Roxane mentions that she would still love Christian if he were visually unappealing. That she has fallen for his soul alone. His “true” soul. The one he only uses in his letters, a majority of them written to Roxane. So, Roxane ends up falling in love with Cyrano without even realizing it. This is a wonderful example of how Roxane completely disregards Christian’s looks and takes a closer look at his heart.

The play “Cyrano de Bergerac”, is a wonderful way to explain how looks aren’t everything. Sure, Christian had a good heart, but he wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. If anything, this play can teach us all a lesson: Outer beauty may be what we all see at first glance, however, inner beauty is much more important, but needs to be looked at closer.