IMAGERY IN ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
Task one: For the following examples, explain the significance of sword
imagery. What does the character say and what does the sword symbolise
in each instance?
 4.14 – The sword is referred to in two ways in this scene.
 5.1 – Dercetus refers to the sword.
 2.5 – Cleopatra refers to Antony’s sword in this scene.
 3.11 – Antony refers to his sword.
 2.2 – Agrippa refers to Julius Caesar’s sword.
IMAGERY IN ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
Task one: For the following examples, explain the significance of sword
imagery. What does the character say and what does the sword symbolise
in each instance?
 4.14 – The sword is referred to in two ways in this scene.
 5.1 – Dercetus refers to the sword.
 2.5 – Cleopatra refers to Antony’s sword in this scene.
 3.11 – Antony refers to his sword.
 2.2 – Agrippa refers to Julius Caesar’s sword.
Task two: For the following imagery/symbols, explain which character they
are applicable to and their importance to the play overall:
Shape-changing clouds
Fleeing ships (wavering loyalty)
Food and feasting
Water and its association with the Egyptian world.
Task two: For the following imagery/symbols, explain which character they
are applicable to and their importance to the play overall:
Shape-changing clouds
Fleeing ships (wavering loyalty)
Food and feasting
Water and its association with the Egyptian world.
Task three: For each of these quotes, identify the speaker, who they are
speaking to, and why this quote is important to the overall play:
Task three: For each of these quotes, identify the speaker, who they are
speaking to, and why this quote is important to the overall play:
1. All is lost!
This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me. (4.12)
1. All is lost!
This foul Egyptian hath betrayed me. (4.12)
2. You did know
How much you were my conquerer, and that
My sword, made weak by my affection, would
Obey it on all cause. (3.11)
2. You did know
How much you were my conquerer, and that
My sword, made weak by my affection, would
Obey it on all cause. (3.11)
3.] If it be love indeed, tell me how much (1.1.14)
3.] If it be love indeed, tell me how much (1.1.14)
4. Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged Empire fall (1.1. 35-40)
4. Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
Of the ranged Empire fall (1.1. 35-40)
5. Excellent Falsehood!
Why, did he marry Fulvia and not love her?
I’ll seem the fool I am not; Anthony
Will be himself (1.1.41-44)
5. Excellent Falsehood!
Why, did he marry Fulvia and not love her?
I’ll seem the fool I am not; Anthony
Will be himself (1.1.41-44)
6. I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards
To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone (3.11.7-8)
6. I have fled myself, and have instructed cowards
To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone (3.11.7-8)
7. Authority melts from me (3.13)
7. Authority melts from me (3.13)