Shakespeare's Antony And Cleopatra
Love and Poetic Imagery in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra."
In William Shakespeare's play, Antony and Cleopatra, some people blame Antony for jeopardizing his Roman manliness for the love of Cleopatra, and some people think that the play shows that the Roman world of power and martial honor is well lost for love. This paper will discuss the depictions of Antony's and Cleopatra's respective conflicts, and how those depictions portray the value of romantic love. The discussion will begin with Antony's conflict, which is a struggle between reason and emotion, mind and heart. This conflict is a central theme to the play, and is even manifest in a geographic and political sense as the struggle between the western world of Rome and the eastern world of Egypt. The discussion will move to Cleopatra, and show that she is at the center of the same struggle, and is motivated just as Antony to choose between political power and love. The paper will conclude with an examination of Shakespeare's message about the value of romantic love.
As one of the triumvirs, Antony is a man vested with great power and an equal weight of obligations. Since coming to Alexandria and taking up with the Queen of Egypt, he has been neglecting his duties. There is gossip to that effect, as the opening scene portrays. Philo describes his perception of Antony as he approaches; "Take but good note, and you shall see in him / The triple pillar of the world transform'd / Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see." (I.i.11-13) Made apparent is the notion that Cleopatra is responsible for Antony's dereliction of duty. We also see Antony and Cleopatra for the first time as they discuss the nature and dimensions of their love for each other. When Cleopatra brings into question the boundaries of their love, Antony responds by saying that "new heaven, new earth" must be discovered, implicitly stating that his love for her...
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