Cleopatra VII

Throughout time there have been many instances where a strong orator voices their opinion with power persuasive elements and lead to a drastic change, much like the case of Mark Antony in Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Before Antony gives his famous eulogy of his dead friend and future leader of Rome, Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus gives his outlook on the situation first in front of a crowd of Romans. Brutus is also a close friend of Caesar but he believes that Caesar needed to die…

Rome in Panic: Mark Antony’s Rhetorical Response Within William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, the character Mark Antony uses a plethora of rhetoric devices to persuade the crowd towards his way of thinking. These devices include sarcasm, logical thinking, and crying to emit a sense of emotion appeal. William Shakespeare uses different rhetorical modes inside each section of Mark Antony’s speech, which includes: Logos, Logos with Ethos, and Pathos during section 1, Ethos and Ethos with Pathos…

Mark Antony's Secret Weapon “Friends Romans countrymen Lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” That was Mark Antony’s (a character and one of the main antagonist in William Shakespeare's tragedy Julius Caesar) first statement in his speech that completely turned a weeping mourning crowd into an angry mob. This crowd had just heard that news that their beloved leader Julius Caesar had been put to death. Brutus (a main protagonist in the tragedy) had spoke before Mark…

The play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, written by William Shakespeare, is written taking place with a very powerful and rogue ruler, Julius Caesar, and focuses on Brutus' struggle between the adverse demands of patriotism, honor, and friendship. Within the play, Shakespeare sympathizes with Caesar’s conspirators and is very much in favor of a democracy rather than one, powerful ruler as depicted in the play. And, as Shakespeare was writing this play, he was trying to convince the audience to…

power. In contrast, Cleopatra garners more sympathy, as she argues that she “loves him best” and has suffered the most with the loss of her honor, and is forced to “bear the branded name…

One of the elements being the themes that emerge; such as love, evolution, and value. In the first half of the poem, Cleopatra 's king has shown a deep concern because of the disappearance of his beloved queen. Sadly, it is later revealed that her disappearance was due to her betrayal of their relationship. In comparison, the second part of the poem talks about ‘modern day Cleopatra’ and the man that has always been in love with her, even after her deceitful actions which…

Ancient Egypt was once a famed era for architectural achievements and many other things. It is also a place in time that a woman might have held the same rights as the male counter parts. It is at this time that there were many powerful female figures. Figures that continue to hold a place in the history book even today. None are as famous as Queen Nefertiti, whom is still in her tomb hidden from the world, and Pharaoh Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh, to whom has had her art destroyed. There is…

Long ago in ancient Egypt, there was a powerful queen by the name of Nefertiti who ruled during one of Egypt’s most prosperous periods: the end of the 18th dynasty. Her life is shrouded in mystery, for in those times was not recorded as accurately and in detail as it is today. One of the most important events of her rule was her sudden disappearance from Egyptian history. In Nefertiti: Egypt’s Sun Queen, Joyce Tyldesley uses archeological evidence and excerpts from articles written by trusted…

Khufu, also known as Cheops was born between 2589BCE and 2620BCE in Egypt. As well as he birth, his death occurred in 2566BCE in Egypt. His full name was Khnum-Khufwy which means “Khnum Protects Me.” Khufu was born in a wealthy life where his parents were the first King and Queen of the 4th dynasty. His parents’ names were King Snefru and Queen Hetepheres. It is believed that Khufu married two women in Egypt. His former spouse was Henutsen, which was also his cousin. After a while, he married…

30 B.C., Cleopatra entered a mausoleum in Alexandria and committed suicide. She had spent the last two decades as the last independent Pharaoh of Egypt. Cleopatra battled her siblings ruthlessly for power, engaged the Roman emperor in military action, and had more than one passionate and well-known affairs. She is one of the most loved figures in ancient history, constantly defying gender roles and female stereotypes, and her life was steeped in adventure and mystery. Best of all, Cleopatra was…