Antony and Cleopatra Essay 2

Antony and Cleopatra Essay 2
The character of both Antony and Cleopatra are shaped by the language in which they speak, their tone, and their colourful imagery in particular. Discuss how language ships with both characters
“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!” A powerful yet cowardly words used in one of Shakespeare’s famous plays, Antony and Cleopatra. A play based in the roman ages where two nobles fall in love on opposite ends. Their character shaped by each other’s shadows. Antony, the brave, mighty warrior who defies death itself and Cleopatra, a passionate, yet powerful queen. When both are near, Antony becomes a coward, weak and a man who is emotionally controlled by Cleopatra who’s now stronger, more passionate and demanding.
Warriors will fight honourable till their end of their life, serving their kings and queens, and not feeling the slightest emotion of love as that is what makes them strong. “Men at some time are masters of their fates.’’ A speech said by Caesar to Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, expressing the way of many warriors fate but mostly, Antony, as he has lost the way of being in control of his fate. Instead his fate is now being controlled by Cleopatra. It uses emotional religious speech where ‘fate,’ is almost as god, or their own god. This shows and tell that Antony is no longer in control of his life, no longer have the eyes of his god, therefore, he is now a coward, a weakling. But before where is was strong, mighty and brave, he was able to control his fate, able to gasp onto the string that controls his life.
Cleopatra a mighty and unedifying Queen who rules all of Egypt has even conquered and is now controlling Antony’s fate. Show throughout the play, Cleopatra character is never constant, and her personality always fluctuates. ‘’Sir, You and I must part, but that’s not it; Sir, You and I have Loved, But that’s not it,’’ The repetition of ‘Sir’ and ‘But that’s not it’ implies that her feelings and her words do not match but at the same time, she is contradicting herself. Additionally, throughout the play, Cleopatra, from loving Antony and wanting to be with him has changed many times throughout they play, her emotions fights with her life as she betrays Anthony and then falls back in love with Antony and yet again hate him. ‘That head, my Lord?’ has an ambiguity emotional context as she

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