Throughout the first two acts of the play we have witnessed how Cleopatra has on a number of occasions manipulated Antony’s behaviour and ‘bewitched’ him into prioritising her above everything else in his life. I will begin this essay by focusing on a severe example of this behaviour in Act III scene 7. During this scene Cleopatra tells Enobarbus that she wishes to be involved personally in the war “I will be even with thee, …showed first 75 words of 1351 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1351 total…no choice but to inform him she had done the same. In conclusion Acts III and IV cause the audience to experience such emotion that it is sometimes difficult to record who they are actually sympathising with at specific moments, as their object of pity changes so frequently. It is however clear that the two main characters which the audience often sympathise with for many reasons and on many occasions, are indeed Antony and Cleopatra.