In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare highlights two great cultures of efficient reasonable society of Rome and self –indulgent society of Egypt. The two great civilizations were bi-polar and they repelled each other like same sides of two magnates . Tiber, 1the river of Rome connects Europe with the rest of known world, symbolizes the maturity and highly consciousness ... , the two civilizations, Roman and Egyptian , were quite different and thus tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra was inevitable. It was the tragedy of unsuccessful amalgamation of two cultures. Cleopatra herself bears the respo...

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