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... for Cleopatra
While Mark Antony is a great general, one of the three triumvant, it is indeed impossible to feel sympathy for him in his extreme "dotage" for Cleopatra. ... The cyclical cooling and enflaming suggests the fluctuating course that Antony will follow, suggesting a sort of shameful helplessness of Antony in regard for his love for Cleopatra. ... Immediately after Philo has described Antony as "the bellows and the fan to cool a gypsys lust", Antony and Cleopatra arrive with "eunuchs fanning her". ... This successfully reminds Cleopatra of Antony: "Where thinkst thou he is now?" Cleopatra also exclaims later: "Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, the other ways a Mars. ... This also presents antagonism to the relationship of the two protagonists - Cleopatra states that she "take[s] no pleasure in aught a eunuch has". ... Caesar, after describing some of Antonys pleasurable immoderations, says that he "is not more manlike than Cleopatra,; nor the Queen of Ptolomy more womanly than he." Cleopatra recalls of the time, when she "drunk him to his bed; Then put my tires and mantles on him, whilst I wore his sword Philippan.
Approximate Word count = 1072
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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