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When Roxane is first admired for her “fair features,” how much freedom does she really have to choose her own future? Should we see her as a romantic heroine, a person shaped by social pressure, or both? Consider how her relationships with Cyrano, Christian and De Guiche reveal the difference between choosing love and being treated as someone else’s prize.
Roxane, also called Madeleine Robin, is introduced as Cyrano’s cousin: admired for her “fair features” yet pressured by De Guiche’s plans for her marriage. Her intelligence, independence and emotional courage make her central to the play’s tensions between appearance, power and genuine love.