" "Fancy outwork nature" emphasise super-human qualities of Cleopatra, complemented by her inner feelings of immortality, "I am fire and air, my other elements I give baser life" and "I have immortal longings in me, as she says near her death in Act 5, scene 2.
Just as Shakespeare depicts Cleopatra's superhuman aspects through Enobarbus, Caesar is used to display Antony's superhuman soldiery. Both are described positively by those technically "against them." Caesar depicts Anthony not only as a soldier but a great hero. He is famed more powerful than beasts or savages, having "patience more than savages could suffer, eating "strange flesh which some did die to look on." He is repeatedly associated with Mars the god of war, a potent symbol of absolute masculinity. He has "goodly eyes" that once glowed like plated Mars;" "his "captains heart" could "burst the buckles of his breast." It is the Soothsayer who insists "thy spirit is noble, courageous, high, and unmatchable." This lends a supernaturally powerful resonance to his character, mirrored in the image of Hercules "whom Antony loved." Images of greatness pursue him through the play, " the greatest prince o'the world, "his legs that "bestrid the ocean. Cleopatra calls him "demi-Atlas of the earth." .
As he seemingly was demi-god, before Hercules left him. Both characters use their genders powerfully though Antony is ruled more by fate where Cleopatra isn't.
While both Antony and Cleopatra are portrayed as "superhuman" they also display accessible human attributes. A Shakespearean, as to a modern audience, can relate to the psychologies of Antony and Cleopatra through human emotions, which are interlinked, with a moral sense of duty and social order. The emotion of passionate love, is comprehensible to the audience of any time, "(Cleopatra's) passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love." Here we can all understand their unyielding passion, even if it seems beyond our mortal capabilities.
