Assignment 01 Part 1 CleopatraTo what extent do Roman depictions of Cleopatra appear to have influenced the way she was portrayed on TV and in films?Did Roman depictions of Cleopatra play quite an influential role about how Cleopatra has been portrayed on TV and in films. The written accounts, in which we can learn about Cleopatra, were taken from Roman resources and we have no Egyptian counterpart to use as a comparison. However, the accounts themselves were written after the actual events, so they cannot be taken as history per se. Over the course of several generations of depictions of Cleopatra, the media was able to mold Cleopatra into an image suited to the fashion of the time, but maintaining the same fundamental characteristics. In the 1917 production Cleopatra was portrayed as a powerful and threatening character from an alien land. At the time it was common belief that powerful women were dangerous. In the next production in 1934, during the art deco movement, Cleopatra was still seen as exotic, but this time also very glamorous and flirtatious. With the Legion of Decency committed to promoting marriage rather than extramarital sex and divorce, which were becoming increasingly fashionable, the film allowed for just the right amount of excitement but also a reminder of the danger associated with Cleopatra's suicide. Moving almost 30 years to 1963, to a romantic period, Cleopatra's exoticism remains with an extra extravagance. Political influences can be compared to the notions of "living as one" or "one world culture" that Cleopatra talks about, with Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy. (Fear Speaking, Cleopatra, 2008) Exotic, powerful and even courageous the notes remain to this day with portraits of Cleopatra. In Horace, Ode...... in the center of the sheet......stus as more resolute and less divided: "Of wealth? For the lordship of Emden will be mine. When Mephistopheles stands at my side, Which god can harm you, Faust? Are you safe? Come, Mephistopheles! Come, come Mephistopheles! (Marlowe, The A text, 2003, pg. 33) He can't wait for Mephistopheles to arrive, and to feel safe and to have everything he wants, and says his name almost three times while screaming for him. Word length 527. Bibliography Moohan, E. (2008) Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Anita Pacheco, AA100 Book 1 Reputations, Milton Keynes. The Open University pp 30-54.Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus, Act 2, Scene 1, 11. 1-29 in John O'Connor (ed.) (2003). Doctor Faustus: the A text, Harlow, Pearson Longman, p.. 33-