Antony’s_Fear_When_Faced_with_Pleasure_versus_Duty

Antony’s Fear When Faced with Pleasure versus Duty Antony’s Fear When Faced with Pleasure versus Duty All of Shakespeare’s works are written with a purpose, usually to entertain or inform the audience of some underlying universal truth. Often it is a theme or idea that might not be easily visible to the characters within the play. Though they operate in view of the audience who easily sees what the author is trying to accomplish, they are unaware of the essential truth. This idea parallels the readers’ experience because no person can know their intended role in the universe or the lessons they are meant to learn. This reason is what makes Shakespeare’s works so important. One struggle that readers deal with is the feeling of duty versus pleasure, as does Antony in Antony and Cleopatra. The imagery and other examples showcasing this conflict are essential to the plot because they show characters flaws, and how they are real. The struggle evident in characters of the story is almost always involving their pleasure-seeking side versus their loyal and dutiful side. The characters both fear the world of pleasure and all that it contains yet fell that they must challenge themselves into choosing that pleasurable world. Antony easily shows this struggle more antony, shakespeare, pleasure, egypt, world, struggle, one, idea, fears, fear, cleopatra, caesar, rome, out, men, characters, being, together, take, pregnant, himself, duty, desires, choosing, wife, versus, now, must, knows, however, great, easy, between, because, against, way, time, side, shows, responsibility, represents, octavia, life, fulvia, easily, death, consequences, conflict, battle, antony’s, after