... civilization. He declares Plutarch as moral for his views on Antony's actions, as at the beginning he states, he was a once great man yet now consumed by his own indulgence, which Ribner backs up by stating that Antony shows an inordinate love of vice and dissipation. "Antony and Cleopatra uses as a moral exemplum to teach the evils of lust, with Cleopatra as ... drunken, prodigal fool ensnared by her duplicity, discarding an empire and damning his soul." Damning his soul, I've had a hard time in believing that is what Shakespeare was implying when writing the play. Shakespeare's play s...

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