Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Mars and Cleo?

I found the comparisons of Antony and Cleopatra to Mars and Venus fascinating.. the idea of love and war trying to coexist and the natural world dissolving into oblivion because of the lovers.. so they therefore try to make space for themselves..."new heaven, new earth" and all other space is poetry (Act 1 Scene 3). Complete opposites in all sense.. its ironic they even fall in love, or is it a comfort... is Antony merely comfortable in the confines of the Egyptian palace... Everything that Cleo stands for is unfamiliar to Antony so is it true love? or a new and exciting game? It appears to be just a power struggle between the two.. and not a love story that should be remembered and immortalized...

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