Originally posted by Guynemer
I have to disagree with you here--nearly everyone else in the show thinks Antony is a brute, and while he is certainly a hedonist, he has also shown himself to be remarkably clever. He plays his image as a simple brute to his great advantage again and again, as especially seen in the most recent episode.
I have to disagree with you here--nearly everyone else in the show thinks Antony is a brute, and while he is certainly a hedonist, he has also shown himself to be remarkably clever. He plays his image as a simple brute to his great advantage again and again, as especially seen in the most recent episode.
What's interesting in Shakespeare's play is that Antony's transformation from great Roman general and man of action is supposed to have been effected by the wiles of Cleopatra, seen (along with Egypt) as the essential corrupting influence, in sexual and political terms, over the sea-green incorruptibles of Rome.
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