Love, Transformation, and Identity: Exploring Shakespeare's Themes

This essay delves into the enduring nature of love as depicted in William Shakespeare's plays, primarily focusing on 'Anthony and Cleopatra' and 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.' The analysis explores how Shakespeare portrays love as a powerful force capable of causing both joy and pain, driving characters to make sacrifices and undergo significant transformations. The essay highlights the theme of enduring love, illustrating how it unites lovers even in the face of challenges, and examines how love can alter individual personalities and behaviors. Furthermore, it discusses the importance of inner self and identity, as characters often grapple with disguises and external pressures. By examining the love triangle and other elements of the plays, the essay provides insights into Shakespeare's exploration of love's complexities, its impact on human behavior, and its transformative power.

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The Theme Decisions in the Pursuit of love
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The Theme Decisions in the Pursuit of love
Many individuals consider Shakespeare as one of the major fully developed actor, poet
and playwright in body of the novel. The work of the Shakespeare tends to regenerate the style
and the spirit of the originals and interpret the plays in his way. Therefore, he is regarded as the
greatest dramatist and great writer in the field of English across the world. His plays have been
performed on professional stages and amateur and transformed into various languages across the
world. Therefore, the film versions of the play in Japanese, French, Russian, German and
English has been seen and heard by many individuals. However, the plays have been rejuvenated
and revised by various prominent playwrights and producers. The persuades of theme in his
work enduring nature of love. Therefore, this paper seeks to analyze the theme decisions in the
Pursuit of love based on the analysis of the two major vital plays common in the current edition
(Shakespeare’s Anthony & Cleopatra and Pericles, The Prince of Tyre).
Shakespeare’s Anthony & Cleopatra
Shakespeare’s Anthony & Cleopatra is a Jacobean play written by William Shakespeare.
However, it was originally published in May 1608. and it has various characters, including Mark
Antony, Cleopatra, and Enobarbus Domitius. In constructing his play, Shakespeare presented
Antony as a noble subject and loyal friend of Julius Caesar, thus implementing the play around
Roman historical events. Generally, mark Anthony and the roman Politian was the major rival of
Shakespeare's successor Octavian and an ally of Julius Caesar. However, with the two men,
Antony was integral to the transition in Rome from public to the empire.
Therefore, Antony and Cleopatra are a play that portrays the history of a romance
between two powerful lovers who rule the roman empire. The two lovers were mark Antony,

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who ruled the Roman empire with Octavius Caesar, and Lepidus and Cleopatra, who was the
queen of Egypt.
However, analyzing the events portrayed in the play, Octavius goes on to embrace some
behaviors that do not conform to the needs of the society. In fact, Octavius started behaving
dishonestly toward Anthony. However, due to the dishonorable behaviors implemented by
Octavius, there was a need for the civil war resulting in the death of Anthony and thus Octavius
managed to become the first emperor in the roman empire. Therefore, the major theme based on
Cleopatra and Antony is the enduring nature of love between two powerful lovers who rule the
roman empire. And therefore, this theme portrays that the pair in love are united forever in death
despite all challenges.
In summary, Anthony and Cleopatra is a play about the history of a romance between two
powerful lovers who rule the roman empire. Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, was in love with
Mark Antony, one of the known rulers in role. However, in this relationship, Mark Anthony was
summoned back to Rome, where Anthony behaves dishonestly by clashing with another ruler,
Octavius, before going back to Cleopatra in Egypt. Now in battle with Octavius, Cleopatra and
Mark Anthony suffered miscommunication and losses, and thus both eventually commit suicide.
Therefore, the major aspects of the genre implied that love can cause pain.
Pericles, The Prince of Tyre
Pericles, the prince of tyre is one of e best recognized play in modern edition. It is a
Jacobean play inscribed at least in part by Shakespeare. Original this play was published in 1609.
However, the play is considered as a tragicomedy genre and embraces the history of Pericles
who attended a little contest hosted by king Antiochus. The consist was referred to as “Whoever

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guesses this riddle can marry smokin’ hot daughter, but everyone who guesses wrong gets his
head mounted on my wall". Our boy, the prince of tyre attended the contest and quickly solved
the riddle. However, the riddles portray a dirty little mystery about the king. In solving the riddle,
Pericles quantify that the king has performing kind of incest. Once pericles return home, he sails
with the family, but he was separated from his family by a storm. Therefore, the prince of the
tyre returned home alone.
In summary, analyzing the events portrayed in the play the prince of tyre comprehends
the riddle and note that it refers to the daughter of King Antiochus finds a father and lover in
the same body. Therefore, recognizing that the concern of the riddle is incest, Pericles rejected
his moods for the king’s daughter. Therefore, the prince of the tyre returned home alone.
The major theme based on Shakespeare's Anthony & Cleopatra is the enduring nature of
love. Shakespeare embrace that love is something passionate and wild that can take someone
almost out of the senses. Here, Shakespeare portray that love can make people to do something
they normally not intended to do. For example, Octavius started behaving dishonestly toward
Anthony. However, as a result of the dishonorable behaviors implemented by Octavius, there
was a need for the civil war resulting in the death of Anthony. Therefore, love it can be
something that just came in one’s sense suddenly and can often make a person miserable.
From the analysis of Shakespeare’s Anthony & Cleopatra and Pericles, the prince of
tyre we can deduce that love is a vital tool of transformation. Love changes the individual's
personalities as per Shakespeare’s characters. In this context. Love prompts make people to
make sacrifices, or to take risks that prompt individuals to change their personalities. This
satisfices can make one to change behaviors that would be otherwise be unthinkable. For

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instance, in the humanizing of the screw, Kate sacrifices her headstrong and abusive behaviors
and becomes a tamed kind of her former nature. Therefore, from the analyzing Shakespeare’s
Anthony & Cleopatra and Pericles, the prince of tyre we can deduce that love is a vital tool of
transformation.
The major theme based on Cleopatra and Antony is enduring nature of love, therefore,
this theme portrays that despite of all challenge, the pair in love are united forever in death.
However, from the analysis of the Shakespeare’s plays, theme decisions in the Pursuit, can teach
as various attributes about love. For example , Shakespeare portrays 15 things about love:
meddling sometimes work; in most cases, jealousy cases never goes well at the end; in case a
partner surprises you with a present, hold onto it; there really is a small link between hate
and love; a min-break can reinvent a relationship; the approval of the family is not everything
in relationship; and don’t ever tempt to change the one you are with.
However, the major theme based on Cleopatra and Antony is enduring nature of love,
therefore, the main message in this play is that despite of all challenge, only the inner self is true.
For example, most of the characters in the play implement disguises in one way or the other, yet
these characters are not in a position to overwhelm their true selves for quite some time.
Additional, analyzing the events portrayed in the play, the prince of tyre comprehends the riddle
and nots that it refers to the daughter of King Antiochus finds a father and lover in the same
body. Therefore, recognizing that the concern of the riddle is incest, Pericles rejected his moods
for the king’s daughter. Therefore, the prince of the tyre returned home alone. Therefore, the
main message in this analysis is that despite of all challenge, only the inner self is true

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How Shakespeare Unfolds the Theme
The major love triangle from the analysis is a portrait between various characters. Some
of the characters from the such as count Orsino, Countess Olivia and Viola implies how
Shakespeare unfold the love triangle in the play. Count Orsino swiftly instigate to value the so
called “young man” but in long run Orsino come in contact with Viola. Therefore, count Orsino
was not fully aware of the true identity of Viola and he was ignorant of violas passion for him.
So Orsino solicits “Cesario” to aid him court Olivia, which is a clear indication that Orsino
Duke is a true romantic
However, Since Orsino is craves the excitement and stimulation of emotions, he implied
that he was in love with the idea of love. Therefore, Orsino get to internalize that love is a
powerful force despite the fact that he gets controlled sometimes by his feelings.
In contrast, Orsino makes a point of concern on the relationship between imagination and
love. Nevertheless, despite the fact that the Orsino’s trick take him enervate of the music, it does
embrace him to stop him from accounting the issue of love. Therefore, Orson’s ticks enable him
to prove the relationship between imagination and love. He proves too simple that by
commenting, “so full of shapes is fancy/That it is high fantastical.’ This is clear prove that there
is a relationship between love and imagination.
Conclusion
The major theme based on Shakespeare's Anthony & Cleopatra is the enduring nature of
love. Shakespeare embrace that love is something passionate, and wild that can take someone
almost out of the senses. Despite the fact the play generate a joyful ending, where different
lovers find one another and attain wedded happiness, Cleopatra and Anthony embrace that love

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can cause some pain. Here Shakespeare portray that love can make people to do something
they normally not intended to do. additionally, love is a vital tool of transformation. Love
changes the individual's personalities as per Shakespeare’s characters. In this context. Love
prompts make people to make sacrifices, or to take risks that prompt individuals to change their
personalities. This satisfices can make one to change behaviors that would be otherwise be
unthinkable.
Therefore, the main message in this play is that despite of all challenges, only the inner
self is true. For example, most of the characters in the play implement disguises in one way or
the other, yet these characters are not in a position to overwhelm their true selves for quite some
time.
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References
Gibson, R. (2004). Anthony and Cleopatra. Cambridge University Press.
Shakespeare, W., & Wilkins, G. (2004). A reconstructed text of Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Oxford
University Press, USA.