Cyrano's Speech To Le Bret By Edmond Rostand
Rostand suggests about how patronage causes an artist to lose his individuality. He shows this through Cyrano’s speech to Le Bret. Cyrano speaks to Le Bret about how patronage causes an artist to lose individuality, by giving him a speech where he repeatedly lists pitiful situations. When Cyrano is asked why he refused to be a patron of Richelieu, he responds to Le Bret with a speech. "Seek for the patronage of some great man, And like a creeping vine on a tall tree crawl upward, where I cannot stand alone? No thank you!" (Edmond Rostand 88). The words creeping, upward, and cannot stand alone suggest the loss of individuality. Since Cyrano wrote his own poems and plays, they would gain popularity because he would be associated with a