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The Politics of Antony and Cleopatra By Shakespeare

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  Antony and Cleopatra deals ambiguously with the politics of imperialism and colonization. Critics have long been invested in untangling the web of political implications that characterise the play. Interpretations of the work often rely on an understanding of Egypt and Rome as they respectively signify Elizabethan ideals of East and West, contributing to a long-standing conversation about the play’s representation of the relationship between imperializing western countries and colonised eastern cultures.[55] Despite Octavius Caesar’s concluding victory and the absorption of Egypt into Rome, Antony and Cleopatra resists clear-cut alignment with Western values. Indeed, Cleopatra’s suicide has been interpreted as suggesting an indomitable quality in Egypt, and reaffirming Eastern culture as a timeless contender to the West.[28] However, particularly in earlier criticism, the narrative trajectory of Rome’s triumph and Cleopatra’s perceived weakness as a ruler have allowed readings t

Line By Line Explanation Of Sansom's The Vertical Ladder

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  These lines have been taken from Sansom’s story ‘The Vertical Ladder’. Mr. Flegg was climbing the iron rungs of the ladder. He was very much strained. His muscles had started giving up. His body lost its balance.  The nerves and muscles of legs and arms seemed to work independently. The movement of their hands and legs is controlled by a certain order.  The hands that clutched the iron rungs and the feet that stepped on did not act jointly. They acted separately-as if they were not the parts of the same body. The hands and legs moved with a jerk of crippled limbs. 2. His horrified senses suspected…………sank to the earth. These lines have been taken from Sansom’s story ‘The Vertical Ladder’. The author says that Mr. Flegg had lost his nerves in the climb. He was terribly frightened and had grown desperate.  He was so much upset that he imagined to himself that in a moment’s time the whole iron structure would collapse with a mere touch of the wind.  He could not reason out. H