What are some Verbal Irony Quotes from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand?

Answer 1

Cyrano’s verbal agility is shown by his ability to reapply Valvert’s own word ridicule to Valvert rather than to himself – and also to exploit his own name and his opponent’s preceding lexical choice, for the perfect thematically contrasting rhyme words.

The most dramatic scenes of Acts I and II of Cyrano are Cyrano’s duel with Valvert at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and his confrontation with Christian in the story-telling scene among their regiment (the cadets de Gascogne). Both of these scenes show clearly the iconic and metaphoric relationship between verbal sparring and physical combat, in Rostand; and in both scenes, the poetic form itself plays a crucial role in the verbal sparring. When we see that one character controls the rhyme, or coopts another character’s rhyme, Rostand’s form–meaning blend simultaneously lets us know that the character is ‘winning’in the confrontation at the content level.Here are some basic metaphoric mappings between the domains of combatand verbal interaction:

ONE-ON-ONE LINGUISTIC EXCHANGE IS A DUEL.HOLDING THE LINGUISTIC FLOOR IS HOLDING YOUR GROUND.CONTROLLING THE DISCOURSE IS BEING IN CONTROL OF THE COMBATINTERACTION.LOSING THE FLOOR(or losing discourse control by allowing your opponent to phrase things his way) IS LOSING ADVANTAGE IN THE DUEL.

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Answer 2

Ma nel principato nuovo consistono le difficultà. E prima, se non è tutto nuovo ma come membro (che si può chiamare tutto insieme quasi misto), le variazioni sua nascono in prima da una naturale difficultà, quale è in tutti e' principati nuovi: le quali sono che li uomini mutano volentieri signore, credendo megliorare; e questa credenza gli fa pigliare l'arme contro a quello; di che s'ingannono, perché veggono poi according to esperienzia avere peggiorato.