Powerplay_Antony & Cleopatra (1 Viewer)

[lollypops]

Hi! I was thinking that it would be helpful to come up with some generic statements or techniques about powerplay and then relate them back to Antony & Cleopatra. For example: Questioning is used by those who have the power or wish to gain power. This gives them the upper foot and allows them to control the nature and direction of the conversation. (Caesars questioning and accusations of Antony in Act 2 Scene 2)
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[mz_purfect]

jus frm memory another technique is the register of language used by characters in Antony & Cleo to depict the powerplay between the powerlful n the powerless such as Enobarbus'prose enunciations Antony's hyperbolised statements, Cleo's melodramatic pronouncements and Caesar's pragmatic oratories. You can back up these facts by evidence n quotes frm the play.

BTW it was Caesar's pragmatic n realistic speeches unlike Antony's únrealsitic ''Let Rome in Tiber melt'that resulted in Enobarbus' defection to caesar - herein lies the powerplay between the masses....

 

[tennille]

The length of speeches- the longer the speech of a character, the more dominant they are. Mention how Cleopatra uses manipulation= powerplay. Caesar is an opportunist (eg. when he tells Antony to fight by sea because he knows that is his weakness). Most of the techniques are language techniques. Exclamation marks= dominance.

Keep in mind that powerpay is not purely power, it is the struggle to gain and maintain power.

 

[somechick]

Hello.
What i did was take the syllabus and pull it apart. In my exam paper, I just wrote what was in my head based on those. From memory, i think the syllabus wants representations of the powerful, how the powerful are portrayed and something about how relationships reveal power.
There are SO many qoutes i can think of...lets see...Cleopatra on her barge.
Its way to late rite now. its like 11:47pm so bb with heaps of notes tomoz