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Act 3, Scene 6
Themes
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Cyrano De Bergerac, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Appearances and Identity
The Many Kinds of Love
Panache
Social Hierarchy and the Romantic Ideal
Loyalty and Honor
Summary
Analysis
A Monk finds Cyrano and Christian standing outside Roxane’s house. The Monk tells the men he’s looking for the house of Roxane. Cyrano points the Monk toward a distant street, and the Monk thanks the men and moves on.
In a moment of sudden comedic bathos (a shift from the sublime to the vulgar or absurd), the hapless Monk interrupts Cyrano and Christian’s elaborate seduction of Roxane.
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