Cyrano/Roxane Essay                                            Tiffany Roberts               “The moon-yes, that would be the place for me-/ My kind of paradise!” Cyrano and other characters throughout the play, Cyrano de Bergerac, refer to the moon and other astronomical elements as heaven-sent and the place of perfection. In the movie Roxane, the character Roxane is an aspiring astronimst who is every night gazing into the heavens to find her comet that would bring her joy and content. While there are similarities between the uses of the images in both cases, the subtle differences between them reveal the theme of perfection and heaven in both works.               Throughout the play, Cyrano and other characters refer to the moonbeams as “rays from heaven”, which will, someday, take them up to paradise. In the movie Roxane, Roxane’s comet is a new 2001 VW bug. It takes her where she wants to go and all she needs to do is put a little push on the gas pedal. The car, while safe and comfortable, is not always guaranteed to function properly. But if all goes well Roxane will be able to take her VW bug and drive where ever she wants and people will admire her and her great car.                 In  Roxane’s case, she is in total belief that this will happen and that it will happen soon and without anyone else’s help. With Cyrano, he is aware that one day his time will come to die but he does not believe that it will happen soon and that only will his willingness to give in to death, will he ever be overtaken. The theme of perfection is proven because Roxane wants to be able to succeed in finding the comet by herself and that through this finding, she will be happy. And with Cyrano, he will have reached the state of content ness when he has lost truthfully and with a fight to death.                  In the play, the ideas of heaven and the stars was seen as only imaginary and unreal because of the fact that no human had ever researched or went into space at the time. In the movie, because of the technological advancements and information, the sky is used as knowledge and beauty, still mysterious but not impossibly out of reach. The theme of perfection and beauty is proven by the fact that in both pieces, the concept that the sky and the elements in the sky are all mysterious and structures of beauty. In the movie, Roxane uses the star gazing to talk about her perfect man and her ideal romantic situation, which proves the theme of perfection. In the play, Cyrano talks of the sky and discovering the sky as an adventure in which all perfection would be held.           In the movie, CD uses the stars to tell Roxane (as himself) how beautiful he thinks she is and complements her. In the play, Cyrano did not have such an aid to help him reveal his fondness of Roxane, he was to wait until his final minutes to tell her of his feelings. The concept of perfection is used through the stars here because CD uses the stars unending light and beauty to compare Roxane’s beauty to which made it easier for him to say to her with a good comparison. Imperfection was held when Cyrano was unable to reveal his feeling to Roxane until the end but in the end, all truth was known and Roxane and the audience of Cyrano’s death was able to then hold the concept of the smart, respected, witty, romantic, crowd-pleasing, letter-writing, man whose nose was of  incredible size.