“Cleopatra!” yelled Caesar as he burst through the door. I looked up abruptly and was startled. His loud, booming voice made me jump a little in my chair. “What?? What is it?” I demanded, feeling panicked. I couldn’t think of any reason I’d given him to yell at me. He was still yelling when he said, “Antony’s maid reported to me that she saw you having an affair with him. Would you like to explain this to me?! How could you do something like that? We have a child together and you want to go and pull something so ridiculously embarrassing and make me look like a fool? I will not have this. You will stop this nonsense or I will-” I cut him off. I was suddenly angry. How could he be accusing me of something like this? And where did he hear this? “I will not sit here and let you accuse me of something that I haven’t done. Nor will I let you call me a liar. I simply will not have it.” I decided lying was the best option to go with. He stared at me, as if he’d never seen me before. He was still furious, I could tell. But if he found out that I infact did have a love affair with Antony, surely he would do something outrageous. I knew that he didn’t believe a word I said. That was something that had always been a problem with us. We lacked trust in our relationship and I was sure that he was only with me because of our son, Caesarion. I had to act like I was hurt because he was accusing me of cheating on him. “Caesar,” I said in a calm, quiet voice, “I would appreciate it if you left the room. I need a chance to cool down and think. I will not have you yelling at me, and especially if you’re not going to let me explain anything. I certainly did not have an affair with Antony. You can talk to him, if you’d like. But that just shows th... ... middle of paper ... ...his door. I heard you tell him about your affair. I can’t believe you would lie directly to my face!” he yelled, acting horrified. I tried to tell him to stop pulling my hair, but before I did he let go. I turned to face him, and my face met his fist. I opened my eyes. The light was so bright, I had to close them again. “Where am I?” I managed to mumble. My face felt bad and for some odd reason, one of my eyes wouldn’t open. I opened one eye and sat up. In front of me sat Antony and he had his head in his hands. I looked around and realized that I was laying in my bed. My maid came in, saw that I had awoken, and left before I could ask questions. “Caesar hit you. Some of your servants ran to tell me. I got here as fast as I could, but when I did, Caesar had already left. Nobody knows where he’s at. Cleopatra, what happened?” He asked me, sounding truly sincere.
Antony also uses the power of his speech, similar to Cassius, to influence the plebeians of Rome by carefully structuring his words together and using various tones to appeal to the audience. Antony uses repetition, such as this quote, “I thrice presented him a kingly crown,/ Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?/Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,/And sure he is an honourable man.”(III.ii.94-97) Antony uses this repetition of giving evidence to the people of what Caesar’s characteristics were really like, showing them that Caesar was not as ambitious as Brutus said, and calling Brutus an honourable man. The repetition allows for the plebeians to realize the truth because of Antony’s multiple exposures of verification that Caesar was not ambitious and how Brutus and the other conspirators are at fault. It also influences the plebeians to believe that Brutus is not noble at all because of how deceitful he acts when justifying his causes to murder Caesar. Antony then says, “[...]Bear with me./My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,/and I must pause till it come back to me.”(III.ii.103-105). Antony indicates how close his relationship to Caesar and that he feels so heartbroken that he chokes up from all the overwhelming emotions he feels. The tone of his speech elicits sympathy from the plebeians due to the
It was not long before Caesar was assassinated and his close friend and a powerful general Mark Antony denounced the conspirators. Not long after Caesar’s death, Antony and Cleopatra fell in love and ruled Rome and Egypt together. Together, they had formed an alliance strong enough to take down the most powerful force in the world at the time, Rome. The fall of Antony and Cleopatra began when they were defeated at Actium in Greece against Octavian’s Roman army. Towards the end of the book, the author went into details on the true love that existed between Antony and Cleopatra.
that Caesar is just putting on an act and that once he becomes king he will not be as nice
5. What does Caesar do when he is offered the crown? How does the crowd feel about this?
Cleopatra’s upbringing, specifically her education, falls under one of the influences which provided her with the necessary ...
By saying this, Antony is showing how he was as a friend To Caesar and is showing his loyalty and faith to him to tell the audience how great Caesar was.
Stacy Schiff author of Cleopatra strives through her book to denounce all historical myths surrounding Cleopatra. With the rigor of a true historian she is able to distinguish historical veracity from historical myth surrounding the queen from antiquity. The author highlights Cleopatra’s role as a powerful woman and in particular how she attempts to manage the various political or economic predicaments she faced. Stacy Schiff gives us a story that is masterfully reconstructed, allowing the reader insight into the historical context of the time- shedding new light on a woman whose greatest fault was not being a man.
Calpurnia attempts to scare Caesar into staying at the house instead of going to the Capitol. She begins with ethos to establish her credibility and justify her concerns. Calpurnia “never stood on ceremonies”, but now they “fright her,” juxtaposing that the omens never scared her, but are frightening enough that she now is attentive to them. Because women were not as powerful in Rome, Calpurnia further credits her argument by including the “watch.” Using selection of detail, Calpurnia Even the guards, who are men, have seen the strange events, and they are scared. Since even men are scared, it should implicate to Caesar that he should be scared as well. Calpurnia sees a lioness, an image, normally associated with strength and courage, “whelp[ing] in the streets.” The lioness is essentially crying, scared of something. Caesar is also strong, but should be scared as well. When ethos fails to impact Caesar, Calpurnia switches to using pathos to try and scare Caesar. “Fierce fiery warriors [fighting] upon the clouds,” is an image that connotes war. In war, there is death and Caesar should be afraid of death. Calpurnia uses the image of “drizzled blood upon the Capitol,” connoting death, scaring Caesar of what is to come if he chooses to go to th...
Once in Syria and situated Cleopatra began constructing an army. She knew that an army alone wouldn’t get her power back. Cleopatra would need some outside help too to get the job done. She needed a powerful ally and Julius Caesar was just that person. She reached out many times to seek Julius Caesar’s support. After many failed attempts at getting his support he finally came through and agreed to help Cleopatra restore her po...
Today was a very long and confusing day. I do not know why Caesar sent me to follow Flavius and Murellus, but watching and listening to them made no sense. As I was following them, they were harassing common people because they were not working. The common people said they were waiting in the streets for Caesar’s parade for his victory. Diary, this was the confusing part to me, Murellus seemed very mad to hear that everyone in the town was celebrating Caesar’s victory, because when Murellus heard it he said something like he did not win a battle, but just killed the sons of Pompey. Then the commoners felt ashamed of celebrating Caesar's win and Flavius and Murellus then took off the crowns on the statues of Caesar. In my opinion diary, it seems
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The opening speech raises the audiences’ awareness of the Roman view towards Antony and Cleopatra’s relationship. “You shall see him The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool,” which ultimately means that Antony is Cleopatra’s jester, that would do anything for her and that his imminent downfall is due to Cleopatra the “Strumpet”.
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