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Write a 2 page essay on Antony and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet.Another area of mixing vulgar with nice is evident at Act II, Scene II of the play. The line is said by Juliet while referring to Rome

Write a 2 page essay on Antony and Cleopatra and Romeo and Juliet.

Another area of mixing vulgar with nice is evident at Act II, Scene II of the play. The line is said by Juliet while referring to Romeo’s house, with remarks that there is no possible way of which a rose may be nice if it were subject to call a thistle or a skunk-cabbage.

There are many occasions where people cite of betrayal in the play. For example, in scene 9, at Caesar’s camp, a sentry and second watch observe but unseen, Enobarbus was able to cry out grievously on his awful betrayal of Anthony. In Act II, Scene 6, there is also a prediction that Anthony will betray Octavia by the act of returning to Cleopatra. At scene 4, even though contrary to Cleopatra’s wishes, Anthony wakes up early enough and starts alarming himself on the treasures that he had left behind, thus cursing himself as having betrayed Anthony. These and many other scenes justifies on the aspect of betrayal.

Most of the stories that Shakespeare narrated were not original. Rather, he was sourcing his plots and characters from various historical accounts and various classical texts. The five main sources are Giovanni Boccacio, Arthur Brooke, Saxo Grammaticus, Raphael Holinshed, and Plutarch. He used stories from all of these sources in narrating the story of Antony and Cleopatra.

The four major themes are. theme of ambivalence, theme of betrayal, theme of power dynamics, and theme of gender and cross-dressing. In the language and writings, there was image of darkness, image of desire, image of beauty, and image of love (Shakespeare 13).

“Anointed” means harming, and its puns include molesting, hurting, of injuring. “Usurped” means taking and keeping something with force or violence without the right of doing so, and its puns include seizing or holding. “Queen” means the female ruler of the independent state, particularly one that inherits the position, example is Hamlet’s

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