Antony & Cleopatra’s Loss and Gain For an Immortal Love From Shakespeare’s antony and Cleopatra

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 2, 101 - 117, 25.12.2019

Serpil Karayel Nur Koç

Abstract

William Shakespeare’s magnificent work Antony & Cleopatra introduces a divine love of two immortal lovers. In this love struggle, the magnificent heroes sacrifice for the sake of this eternal love. Thus they deserve to become immortal through such a divine love. The aim of this thesis is to investigate the meaning of love, honour and immortality through insight of the two great characters; Antony and Cleopatra. Through these questions this paper is going to scrutinize these issues: What do Antony & Cleopatra gain and lose for this divine love? How can two mortal lovers become immortal through a divine love?

Keywords

Immortality, Power of Love, Sacrifice, Honour, Divinity

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