Antony_&_Cleopatra

Antony & Cleopatra Life's events often cause an individual to re-evaluate what his or her priorities are. In Antony and Cleopatra, Antony is constantly examining his priorities through experiences as he changes or affirms what is truly important in his life. Antony is forced to decide between the Roman lifestyle which he found great success with as a political leader and the frivolous Egyptian lifestyle of the East. After his experiences in battle, Antony makes an initial priority adjustment as he leaves his political success for his emotion dominated relationship with Cleopatra in Egypt. Soon he recognizes, through his experiences in Egypt, that his relationship is playing a negative role in his political involvement, and his strong Roman qualities are losing effect in his character. When he begins to fail in his role as a leader of the Roman Empire, he begins to doubt his priorities are where they should be. Antony finally reassess his life and his values after he has gone to battle ag! ain, and in turn, he accepts that his priorities are no longer found in politics, but are with Cleopatra; and so Antony proceeds to makes the ultimate sacrifice for what antony, roman, life, cleopatra, values, value, relationship, begins, priorities, love, political, cleopatra's, battle, thus, leader, found, antony's, after, way, experiences, emotions, egypt, caesar, time, through, recognizes, reason, priority, play, egyptian, east, duty, doubt, ultimate, success, strong, sacrifice, potential, over, makes, losing, lifestyle, left, great, first, events, eastern, decision, confirms, cause