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This paper discusses the way in which food is used as a metaphor throughout the play's dialogue as a measure of how excessive various characters are in love and in politics. It shows how the play begins and ends with the theme of food as its focus and quotes lines from the body of the play to strengthen this claim.

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"Cleopatra in particular uses food frequently to express her love for Anthony. She not only does this physically over the course of the play, using banquets and strong drink as a way of celebrating his return and whiling the hours away when he is in Rome. Everything is something to be consumed in Cleopatra's eyes, and food also functions verbally as metaphor for her love and her desire to possess Anthony completely and utterly. "Give me some music, moody food/Of us that trade in love." (2.5.1) However, in the eyes of some of the other characters in the play Cleopatra is herself a kind of food. Enobarbus, Anthony's trusted friend states: "Other women cloy/The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry/Where most she satisfies." (2.2.241-244)"

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