Cleopatra: A True Feminine Tragedy
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Sherwin Allan Sanchez Denny Ewrt1B January 29, 2003 Cleopatra: A True Feminine Tragedy In Shakespeare's tragedy, Antony and Cleopatra, Cleopatra is efficiently described by Enobarbus as extremely passionate and movable. She possesses all characteristics of a woman in good ways and bad. She is easily swayed by outside decisions and one cannot clearly decipher what she truly wants. She is also extremely manipulative and uses her femininity to her every advantage. It even seems that she is unfit to manage her own matters or to even merely decide what her own viewpoint on a subject is. Every aspect of her being influences the turning events of this tragedy and one could even say that Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy due to her incapability to bridle her fierce feminine characteristics and channel them towards a greater good other than her own. The first glimpse into Cleopatra's tumultuous nature is a description of her by Enobarbus...


