At last…

Horaaayy.. at last, we have finish learning Antony and Cleopatra. You can’t imagine how relieved I was when Dr. Edwin finished the last page of the play. But, I really thank to Dr. Edwin for helping us with the text. It really helps us a lot. I have a clear view when learning the play with Dr. Edwin, compared to my misery days when I read it alone. If you ask me now whether I like the play or not, my answer is YES! The love relationship that portrayed in this play is so much different compare to the portrayal of love in Romeo and Juliet. The play does not sugar over Antony and Cleopatra’s famous love affair; instead Shakespeare puts on stage Cleopatra’s calculated attempts to seduce Antony from his responsibilities in Rome, as well as Antony’s jealous rages and threats against Cleopatra’s life when he thinks she has betrayed him to Caesar. Nonetheless, Antony and Cleopatra are represented as finding together such sensual and emotional satisfaction in their love for each other that each yearns for an afterlife in which they may renew their union. Shakespeare lavishes such rich figurative language on his heroes’ recollection of their shared past and dreams of a future together that Caesar’s success in the business of world conquest seems a smaller thing than what Antony and Cleopatra have found in each other. In this play, he made us realise there
should be a sense of balance in life. If we let our emotion to rule our life, experiences of pleasure would disappear in no time and may end up ruining our life or the others.