Cyrano. RIP

In the play Cyrano De Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, I found it extremely confusing at first, but a beautiful tragic love story. When I began reading the play, the first act was extremely tossed up for me, there were so many different characters that I had trouble understanding what was going on. Once the story started to unfold I was drawn to the character, Cyrano. In the first act I thought that Cyrano was a brute, a hard headed man who scared off everyone. He was unattractive with an air of solitude, he repelled anything with grace. As the story kept on progressing, I saw that he had softer sides, and once he professed his love for Roxan, I began to see his true colors. I feel that one of the touching parts of the play is when he has his rendezvous with Mrs. Roxan, and she announces her dying love for Christian De Neuvillette, a man she has never spoken to. Like a gentlemen, Cyrano accepts her wish to befriend this man, and basically fix them up, even though he loves her. As the story kept on going, I gained respect for Cyrano, as he wrote the profession love letter to Roxan, giving it to Christian acting as if it were he that wrote it. Or when he spoke words of love to Roxan while she was on the balcony, thinking it was Christian, although it was not he. When things went sour, and Cyrano, Christian, along with many others were shipped off to war, Cyrano still kept his word and wrote to her so many times, even though all the credit went to Christian! Even when Christian wanted Cyrano to tell her the truth, he was too courteous and timid to actually tell her it was he all along. I find it such a sad love story, because in reality she was so inlove with Cyrano, but he felt too insecure to to anything about it. The part that touched me the most was the very end, when he read “Christian’s” final love/death letter. It is so moving because little does she know, these are his words to her, and he reads this letter to her basically on his death bed! Once she realizes that all along, 15 years later, it was he who always loved her, he who captured her soul, and he who she always loved is the true tragedy. This story is such a tragic love story, and I believe for one, every audience loves this kind of theme.