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  Egyptian elusiveness is essentially a foil against Roman innocence. To the observer the Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra, and the embodiment of her state challenges Antony to consider something other than Rome and his Cæsar.1 Magnificence in the timelessness of time, the enjoyment of pleasure and leisure, as well as the life of Egypt’s Nilus1 help lure Antony into the grasp of a highly persuasive and exotic place to be experienced. Just like the Nile, Egypt provides imagery of a shifting land with many unknowns.1 This quality can also be placed on Cleopatra. She provides a quality of shiftiness and the impossibility to completely understand and judge. Rome may be the world, but Antony comes to realize Cleopatra as the flesh of his world.1 She is beautiful in all of her life, her tyranny, and her death.2 The same can be said regarding the land of Egypt itself. This land of sand is intuition2 and love. Cleopatra is mystery and the hidden movements of life.2 She is the East’s cunning siren, matching all of Antony’s qualities with her own, Cleopatra matching all of Egypt’s luxuries and her lusts.3 In a sum, Cleopatra and her Egypt are highly fantastical and at the same time highly intriguing.

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