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Jessie 2022-04-23 07:03:40
The Queen of Egypt, as a woman in the upper position, has committed herself to three men successively. Forgive me for using the word commitment, because women who want to continue to maintain a noble identity and life often choose to rely on men and consolidate their status by pregnancy and childbirth. Even though the Queen and Anthony are in love with each other, her love is very political, and such a woman who seeks protection for her people is scolded by politicians as a prostitute in the play. Can't help but relish her splendid history.
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Julius Caesar: [to Cleopatra] You, a descendant of generations of inbred, incestuous, mental defectives!
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Antony: What has angered you? That I dealt with Octavian however I could, or that I married his sister to do it? Jealousy or politics, which?
Cleopatra: Both! And damn you for not understanding either!
Antony: It would not occur to me to look to you for instruction.
Cleopatra: Which is why you have come back chained to Octavian like a slave. And with such an exquisite set of chains. So softly spoken, so virtuous! She sleeps, I hear, fully-clothed!