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

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?