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Love Letters To Roxane's Personality In Cyrano De Bergerac

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Cyrano de Bergerac is a story (play) about a man named Cyrano De Bergerac with a great personality and very witty but has a extremely large nose that wards of females. His cousin Roxane was his closest companion and he falls in love with her. His cousin on the other hand is in love with a man named Christian. Roxane asks Cyrano to protect Christian during the war they are fighting in. Because he loves her so much Cyrano agrees to her wishes. Cyrano is secretly angry and hurt that Roxane loves Christian and ignores the rowdy crowd around him until he realizes that Christian is one of them. Cyrano tells Christian of Roxane's love for him and Christian confesses he is not witty and good with prose. Cyrano offers to write love letters to Roxane

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