Cyrano De Bergerac Reading Response

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The book Cyrano de Bergerac is about a man named Cyrano who helps a friend earn the love of a woman he also adores. In the last two scenes of act two (scene ten and scene eleven) Cyrano and Christian make an alliance allowing Christian to receive support from Cyrano to win the love of Roxane. In my version I will completely change what happened by allowing Roxane to learn Cyrano’s stealthy feelings by putting her in a scene she was not originally in, which would also shorten the story. Along with shorting this story this change will completely change the plot and dialogue of the book, causing many major events to no longer occur.
Act two scene ten starts after Cyrano cleared a pastry shop that was full of …show more content…

It was important to put her here because if she did not hear this she would not have known about Cyrano loving her which is a major turning point, then she would not be able to admit her true feelings for Cyrano which he thought was unbelievable because of his looks. Overall, this would have changed the whole plot of the story. Now many important events would not have happened : Roxanne and Christian would not have a secret wedding, Roxanne probably would not be on the battle field to traumatically see Christian die, Roxanne she would not have become a widowed nun, Cyrano probably would have died exultant, or even died in the play. Also, Cyrano and Roxane would have probably gotten married and lived a happy life, while Christian eventually moved on, finding a wife and also having a happy life. The dialogues of both acts would be a lot longer and most of the dialogue would be replaced and feature more conversations between Christian, Roxanne, and Cyrano. Lastly, since the story would get to the main point in only the second act, the next three acts would most likely be taken out and the story would just end right

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