Detailed notes that summarise the English Home Language IEB syllabus of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare. Included in these notes are important quotes and character analysis.
Antony
“the triple pilar of the world, transformed a strumpet’s fool”- Philo says that Antony is one of
the most important people because he is one of the three men ruling the roman empire but he
says that he has turned into a prosititues fool
“these strong Egyptian fetters I must break”
“I must from this enchanting queen break o ”
“Amorous surfeiter”- Pompey is saying that Antony is an over indulgent lover= not a good thing
“is twice the other twain”- Antony is twice is good as the other two triumverers
“ne’er lust-wearied Antony- He is never not lustful when he is with Cleopatra
“but how the fear of us may cement their divisions”- between the three triumverers they can
criticise each other but when someone else tries to say something about one of them they come
together as a “family” and defend each other
“I make this marriage fro my peace, I’th’East my pleasure lies”- he is only getting married to
Octavia to create peace in Rome but he love actually is in the East (Egypt) where Cleopatra is
“The absolute soldiership you have by land” - He would be more successful is he fought by
land so by ghting at sea he is throwing away his soldiership
“Noble emperor”
“like a doting mallard” - Scarus said that Antony was like a love struck duck during the Battle of
Actium
“I never saw an action of such shame” - Scarus can’t believe that Antony has lost the Battle of
Actium because he left and followed Cleopatra
“Ill yet follow the wonder chance of Antony, though my reason sits in the wind against me” -
Enobarbus will always follow Antony even though the odds are against him and good sense tells
Enobarbus he should go the other way.
“I have lost my way for ever” - he feels that now that he has lost the Battle of Actium he is not
himself anymore
“I have myself resolved upon a course which has no need of you”- He hints at committing
suicide
“I have o ended reputation, a most unnoble swerving”- He feels that because his reputation
was that he was a good soldier in the past that now that he has lost the battle he feels that he has
ruined his good reputation
“my sword, made weak by a ection”- he is blaming Cleopatra for losing the battle because he
loves her so much that he just followed her when she left without thinking what would happened
“ I will seek some way to leave him” - Enobarbus says that Anthony has lost his way massively
so he has decided that he will leave Anthony even though he is Anthony’s main guy
“My dying owner honor in the blood”- he says that by ghting against Caesar that maybe by
doing this that he can regain his honor that he lost when he lost in the Battle of Actium
“And I, an ass, am onion eyed” - after Antony gives his soldiers his speech about thanking them
for all they do for him. Enobarbus says that everyone around Antony is crying because of his kind
words
“O, my fortunes have corrupted honest men. Dispatch. Enobarbus!”- Antony says that he has
turned his soldiers into corrrouted men when in the past they were honest. He has even done this
to his right hand man. He re ects on his actions
“All is lost! This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me” - Antony says this because Cleopatra turns
and ees again and he is very unhappy about this
“Triple- turned whore!” - he is talking about the other lovers that she has had in the past
“Ah, thou spell Avaunt”- he says that she has become evil and that she must leave him alone
“No more a soldier”- he says that he he is not a soldier anymore because Cleopatra killed herself
and he can’t live without her.
“Bear me, good friends, where Cleopatra bides; ‘Tis the last service that I shall command
you”- he says that he wants to be taken to where Cleopatra is so that he can have his last
moments with her
“The braking of so great a thing should make a greater crack” - Caesar says that there should
have been a bigger announcement when Antony died so much so that the earth should have
shaken and cracked so that everyone would know something horri c has happened.
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