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...
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