Qoutea Flashcards
Antony’s decline due to Egypt
Act 1 scene 1 ‘the strong Egyptian fetters I must break or loose myself in dotage’
‘become the bellows and fan to cool a gipsys’s lust ‘, philo.
Act 2 scene 5 ‘Then put my ties and mantles on him, whilst / I wore his sword Phillipan’
Act 3 scene 11 ‘Egypt thou knewst too well/ My heart was to thy rudder tied by th’ strings
Act 4 scene 4 ‘ Thou art the armourer of my heart. False, false! This!’
Act 4 scene 8 ‘Kiss it, my warrior ‘
Antony’s previous glory
Act 1 scene 1 ‘glowed like plated Mars’ philo
Act 1 scene 5 , ‘ demi-Atlas of the earth ‘ cleopatra
Antony’s declined state
Act 4 scene 5 ‘Oh, my fortunes have / Corrupted honest men !’
Act 1 scene 1 ‘kingdoms are clay ‘
Act 1 scene 4 Caesar ‘ he fishes , he drinks and wastes the lamps of the night in revel’
Act 2 scene 2 Caesar ‘sit’ , Antony ‘sit sir’
Act 3 scene 4 ‘If I lose min honour / I loose myself ‘
Act 3 scene 7 candidius ‘our leaders led / And we are women’s men’
Act 3 scene 10 ‘ nag of Egypt -/ Whom leprosy o’ertake ‘
Act 3 scene 11 ‘Leave me , I pray , a little - pray you, now ‘ ‘my very hairs do mutiny’
‘with half the bulk o th world played as I pleased ‘ ‘noble sir ‘ by Eros ‘I have offended reputation,/ A most unnoble swerving’
Act 3 scene 12 ‘He sends so poor a pinion of his wings ‘’To let him breathe between the heavens and earth/ A private man in Athens ‘
‘Observe how Antony becomes his flaw
Egypt and Rome
Act 1 scene 1 ‘flourish. Enter Antony , Cleopatra, her ladies , the train of eunuchs fanning her’
Act 1 scene 3, Antony ‘Strong necessity of time commands / Our services awhile, but my full heart/ Remains in use with you’
‘Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst dill with sorrowful water?’ Act 1 scene 3
Act 1 scene 4, Caesar enters ‘reading a letter’, Lepidus greets messenger with ‘Here’s more news ‘
Antony’s reception of the messenger act 1 scene 1, ‘Grates me !’,
Act 2 scene 6, Octavia destined as ‘holy,cold and still ‘
‘strange serpents there’ Lepidus act 2 scene 7
Act 3 scene 2, Caesar ‘You take from me a great part of myself ‘
Caesar act 3 scene 12 ‘From Antony win Cleopatra ; promise in our name, what she requires ‘
E defeat and force to Bret ray
Previous belief in Antony ‘Let Antony speak as loud as Mars ‘
Act 3 scene 9 ‘Naught, naught, all naught! I can behold no longer ‘
Act 4 scene 2 calls him ‘domitious’ only time he uses his first name growing closeness yet irony as E has chosen to desert Antony
Act 4 scene 4 ‘I am alone the villain of the earth ‘ - corrupted by Antony’s loss of Roman values to utter despair , loss of identity due to wavering loyalty
Cleopatra
Act 1 scene 3, ‘If you find him sad, say I am dancing ; if in north, report / That I am sudden sick ‘
Act 3 scene 2 , enobarbus ‘ like a burnished throne/ Burned on water’ ‘oerpicturing that Venus’
Antony act 1 scene 5 , ‘serpent of old nile’
‘Give me to drink mandragora ‘ ‘stands he? Or sits he?’
Act 2 scene 2 ‘ So many mermaids, tended her i’th’ eyes’ adored and worshiped
Act 2 scene 3, ‘And though I make this marriage for my peace , / I’th’ East my true pleasure lies ‘
Act 2 scene 5 ‘Antonio’s dead!’
‘I’ll think every one an Antony / And say ‘Ah, Ha!’ You’re caught’
Act 2 scene 6, enobarbus ‘he will to his Egyptian dish again’
Act 3 scene 13 ‘since my lord / is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra ‘
Empire
Act 2 scene 7 ‘wilt thou be lord of all the world ?’ ‘Whate’er the ocean pales or the sky inclips is thine ‘
Enobarbus act 3 scene 5 ‘ Then, world thou hast a pair of chaps , no more,/ And throw better them all the food thou hast/ They’ll grind the one the other ‘
Antony’s loss of Roman values
Act 1 scene 1 philo calls Antony ‘a strumpet’s fool’, act 4 scene 12 a uses similar language to describe cleopatra ‘triple turned whore’ but maintains Egyptian language ‘cleoptra’s bosom was my crownet and chief end ‘
Act 4 scene 14 can’t commit a Roman suicide . ‘How? Not dead ? Not dead ‘ they heave Antony aloft to cleopatra ‘
Act 4 scene 14 Eros can commit a Roman suicide ‘kiss himself ‘Thus I do escape the sorrow/ Of Antony’s death’
Act 4 scene 15 ‘none but Antony / Should conquer Antony’ ‘ Of many thousand kisses the poor last / I lay upon thy lips’
Fate
Act 1 scene 2 ‘you shall outlive the lady whom you serve ‘
Act 2 scene 7 Antony ‘They know by th’ height the lowness , or the mean , if dearth / Or poison follow ‘
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Poor governance
Act 1 scene 4. ‘A man who is the abstract of all faults / That all men follow ‘ Caesar
‘These quicksands, Lepidus,/ Keep of them for you sink ‘ Antony , sin of gluttony inescapable , ‘monarch of the vine ‘ act 2 scene 7
Misogyny
Act 2 scene 6 ‘But there is never a fair woman has a true face ‘ e
Act 3 scene 7 cleopatra ‘ as the president of my kingdom , will / Appear there for a man’
Politics and marriage
Act 2 scene 6 ‘You shall find the band / That seems to tie their friendship together will b be the/ very strangler of their relationship ‘ enobarbarus
Act 3 scene 2 ‘her tongue will not obey her heart ‘ Antony
Antony knows there is untruth in their marriage , act 3 scene 2 ‘better i were not yours / Than yours so branchless’
Performance
Act 3 scene 6 Octavia unperomative in return , Caesar ‘You are come / A market maid to Rome’
Act 4 scene 13 cleopatra creates narrative out of her death ‘bring me how he takes my death ‘
