The song “Cleopatra” by The Lumineers only an individual piece from a greater piece created by The Lumineers called “The Balled of Cleopatra”. The stories as a whole describe the life of a woman through the many options and choices she has chosen that has placed her where she is in life. The song contains many examples of pathos, demonstrating the life of a person that has lived through so much, yet continues on. An important reason as to why Ophelia believed her life turned out to as uneventful as she had planned is because of her love. In the first verse, she describes how her great love “Asked for my hand, but I was sad you asked it, as I laid in a black dress with my father in a casket” (2-4). She was proposed to in such an inappropriate
