Shakespeare Flashcards
Honor Antony
“If I lose mine honor, I lose myself”
The parallel structure compares Antony as the embodiment of honor
=> Importance of this value
A the warrior
“His goodly eyes. That over the files and musters of the war have glowed like plated Mars”
Caesar roman values
“You have broken the article of your oath”
C is attached to promises, responsibility as a politician + present perfect m: it is done, has to face further csqs
Oath = duty
Incompatibility A + Caesar
We could not stall together in the whole world
Pompey
The people love me, and the sea is mine; my powers are crescent and my auguring hope says it will come to th’full
Lexical field of the idea of growing
Personal pronouns: self centered, confident
Factual, présent
“People are slippery” : triumvirate unable to keep people on their side because of tensions btw pillars
Pompey = threat
Triumvirate: power struggle
“Mark Antony in Egypt sits at dinner, Caesar gets money where he loses hearts. Lepidus flatters both. Of both is flattered. But neither loves, nor either cares for him”
By Pompey
Illustrate tensions: A betrays Rome, but he is the one loved by pp: Caesar is useless without Antony
They both don’t care of Lepidus and his attempt to calm them
Antony doesn’t care about rome
“Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall!”
Lepidus middle
“They are his shards and he their beetle.”
( Scarabé, ailes)
The triumvirate can only function with 3 pillars, division could cause Rome’s downfall
Octavia
” beauty, wisdom and modesty”
“Blessed lottery”
=> Enumeration of adjectives, perfect woman, roman values
“Piece of virtue”
“Cement of our love”
“To knit your hearts with an unslipping knot”
=> Octavia is used as a pawn
+ Opposite of Cleopatra
Cleopatra leader
The lamps of night in revel, is not more manlike than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy more womanly than he”
Insult of Caesar
Egypt
- give me some music
- “this is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes the lamps of night in revel
- O happy horse to bear the weight of Antony
- I take no pleasure in aught an eunuch has
A belongs in Egypt
“Let’s have another gaudy night”
=> Before fight
“And thou I made this marriage for my peace, in the east my pleasures lies”
Cleopatra luxury
On a tribunal silvered, chair of gold, throne
The poop was beaten gold, purple the sails, and so perfumed.
Cleopatra’s beauty
It beggared all description… Over picturing that Venus
=> Goddess of love, seduction, beauty
Age cannot wither her
A should leave her utterly
Maecenas: now Antony must leave her utterly
Never, he will not
