Antony and Cleopatra Group

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banquo
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Does Cleopatra really love Antony?

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Posted by banquo on Friday January 26, 2007 at 3:12 PM and tagged with antony, antony and cleopatra, cleopatra, love.

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  1. kloubani
    kloubani Student
    Graduate School

    I think Cleopatra really loves Antony and she is not manipulating his mind to stay at her side in the battle.moreover, she is trying by using the woman power and tricks to bring him as much close to her as she can.nevertheless she would never confess this.And Shakespeare is deliberately using these tricks to show everybody what really woman can do.

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    Posted by kloubani on Thursday April 12, 2007 at 12:16 PM

  2. aarti
    aarti Student
    High School - 12th Grade

    Until the last act, it seems that Cleopatra was a shrewd woman manipulating Antony. She willingly destroyed Antony’s married life as well as made him negligent against his responsibilities as a General. In the battlefield, she ran away with her fleet leaving Antony alone. All this shows that she was a selfish woman and never loved Antony but in the last act when she killed herself after hearing about Antony’s death, it seems that she loved him too. This shows her love for Antony that she never shown before.

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    Posted by aarti on Friday October 26, 2007 at 6:22 PM

  3. revolution
    revolution Teacher
    Doctorate

    It seems in the play that Cleopatra is a scheming and manipulative courtesan who had blatantly used Anthony for her own purpose and desire, the queen that Anthony nearly risked his reputation to help her. She has been nicknamed "whore", "slave", "wrangling queen" and many more by others and also an "enchantress" which had made Anthony the "noble ruin of her magic". She is trying to use power and tricks to get close to him and dominate over the Roman general that is not compatible to true love

    After all, I don't think Cleopatra loves him, but is using him for her personal wants and needs

     

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    Posted by revolution on Sunday July 26, 2009 at 12:19 AM