"The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool." So says Philo, a friend and fellow soldier of Antony, in William Shakespeare's play, Antony and Cleopatra. He refers to Antony: a powerful Roman general, who has been seduced by Cleopatra's charms. This essay will discuss the characters of Antony and Cleopatra, and their respective servants - Enobarbus, Charmian and Iras, Octavius and Octavia, thus deciding whether male or females attain more importance in the play.

Early in the play, Octavius, enraged with Antony's negligence, refers to him as "A man who is the abstract of all faults.". Antony is a man who loses his power and Roman honour as a result for his love for Cleopatra. He "fishes, drinks and wastes the night in revel...", loses crucial battles to Octavius because of his blind passion for the Queen of Egypt and forsakes his Roman honour in fleeing the battle ground in fear for her safety. Shakespeare does, however, at many points remind the reader of......

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Title: Miss
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