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Antony and Cleopatra
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Antony and Cleopatra "I will seek some way/to leave him" Looking closely at the sequence of events in Act III discuss why Enobarbus decides to leave Antony. At the start of the scene we see the more cynical side of Enobarbus as he is talking with Agrippa and mocking the leaders of the triumvirate. Enobarbus says "but how dearly he loves Mark Antony" and Agrippa "O, how he loves Caesar". This in my opinion is Shakespeare foreshadowing Enobarbus leaving Antony for Caesar. This short conversation between the characters also brings into question Enobarbus' loyalty to his superiors, mainly in this case, Antony. Later in the Act we see Cleopatra and Enobarbus in the middle of a heated discussion about the forthcoming war. Cleopatra insists that she will be in the battle representing Egypt as "the president of my kingdom" and she says that she will "Appear there for a man". Enobarbus can't...
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