The question is about a play called Cyrano De Bergerac. Please use evidence or quotes to back up the reasoning. 

"Does the play portray language positively(perhaps as a means of human expression, connection, affection) or negatively( perhaps as a means of deception, obfuscation, aggression)? Address the role of language in the society portrayed by the play, as well as the way it is used personally by some of the characters.

In the play Cyrano de Bergerac, language seemed to be the defining quality of Cyrano himself. Despite having put words into the pedestal of his values, this faltered when he was forced to speak through Christian; the language then connotated a negative air and became a vehicle for deceitful ploys.

At first, he was deemed to be quick-witted but even through the comedic tone of the play, the hero's insecurities are not obscured. For instance, when someone took notice of his 'infinitesimal' nose, Cyrano was quick to make use of humorous quips and spoke of these words: "For a great nose indicates a great man, genial, courteous, intellectual, virile, courageous --- as I am --- and such. As you ---poor wretch ---will never dare to be. Even in imagination. For that face. That blank, inglourious concavity. Which my right-hand finds." This might be seen just as a playful banter but beneath the undertones of these quote is a deep-seated insecurity with Cyrano being forced to retaliate in a condescending manner. Note that this was from the beginning of the play and from then on, the language has been imposed with a pompous vein that remained bleak during the entirety of the play.

Cyrano de Bergerac is analyzed by some to be a return to the poetic and dauntless neo-romantic plays that can also be seen in French romantic writers of the 1820s. Edmond Rostand made use of classical precepts with little ornamental touches of modernity with a certain magnitude. This might have been an ode to the country's slow and steady shift to the modern world. Cyrano de Bergerac rejected the idealized classicism of the past and rather enveloped more elevating themes as a depiction of French society's more liberal stance on politics.

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