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This book came quickly, and was the correct book for the reading list for my daughter who is in the 10th grade. We both love used books and have never been diasppointed in their purchase. This one was no exception.
it is a really good story. i like it a lot.
In an abstract way, Cyrano vents his own feelings, but credits his the resulting glory to a handsome protégé. Cyrano de Bergerac, the character, the play, the legacy, is a timeless literary herald due to its theme. Literature itself is able to assume the bittersweet but themed predictability that concrete reality lacks. The main use of this method by Cyrano is in writing sonnets for Christian's dictation to Roxane. Not unlike a certain Shakespearean character of the same era, she realizes herself to be a woman who has loved not wisely but well. It pretends no circumstance is too outrageous or too wonderful, seamlessly binding the ruthlessly sinister and the impossibly good.
"I never loved but one man in my life, and I have lost him twice". Existence in a contrived reality constitutes a standard motif of Romanticism. A secondary example is the finality in Roxane's tragic statement upon realizing that it was the dying Cyrano she loved, and not Christian. A contrived existence in literature can be interpreted as a dream world in which the character chooses to envelop himself, blocking out society's standards and inverting the impossible. This shadow often sadly results in the opposite of the character's original intentions because it is surreal. She has finally allowed the vale of deception to be lifted, finding in its place a life misspent.
Shaped by a theme of false reality's ultimately unhappy demise, the play is an extraordinary work magnifying life's complications.
He falls in love with Roxanne, but she is in love with another man; while he is beautiful, he's also a veritable dunderhead. The play in which Steve Martin's "Roxanne" was based on is "Cyrano de Bergerac", a French play by Edmond Rostand. The title character is a witty men, well about words, but has a physical appendage that all find alarming and engrossing: a large, portrusive nose. Cyrano agrees to help him court Roxanne and many funny happenings occur. This is an amusing play, sure to charm anyone who can take physical imperfections lightly.
I have had this recording for many years. My original copy is on vinyl. Not only is it extremely well acted, but one almost feels like they are in the locations of the play, the theater, the bakery, the battlefront.
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