After reading the first act of Edmond Rostand's, Cyrano de Bergerac I have noticed the wittiness and cleverness of the way he speaks. Although he might lack in facial beauty he makes up in rhetoric; but I ask how is "pretty" determined? The perspective of beauty has changed over the years, from the muscular sculptures in Ancient Greece to the "plump" shape of the renaissance women. Cyrano is very smooth with words yet he still is self-conscious about his nose, even though he might not have been if there were different standards in France. Cyrano refuses to go after his love because of this and risks not being able to marry her.
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