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Discuss the opinion that“Le Cid is less about love, honour and revenge and more about the complexrelationship between the individual and the state”.
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Discuss the opinion that "Le Cid is less about love, honour and revenge and more about the complex relationship between the individual and the state". FR1002 23/03/2005 Le Cid has been catalogued as the first masterpiece of French Classical theatre. One factor which greatly contributes to its enduring appeal is its portrayal of human drama, whereby a person's private relationships and emotions are brought into conflict with public responsibilities, allegiances and obligations. However, the play "qui a charmé tout Paris"1 is not merely a dilemma between heroism and mysticism, duty and passion: the real drama for which Le Cid accounts is that of establishing a new order in which the forces of the past are stubbornly resistant to subordination. The play is in itself a crossroad between past and modernity that announces the birth of a new reality, a new system, and a new type of hero. Through an analysis of...
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