Cleopatra

Through Late 20th and 21st centuries Cleopatra has been portrayed in many images. Some representations have remained the same the scenery is of elaborate Egyptian symbols and monuments in the background she is also portrayed as the white Anglo-Saxon black haired light-skinned mature female with the gold lavish jewelry glamorous and colorful outfits the makeup worn is typical of the late 20th century she has been portrayed as a powerful intellectual manipulative states woman with the two loves of her life being the prominent feature of each representation Antony and Caesar. Politics have also been prominent in the 1963 production Cleopatra asks of Caesar to form a nation of all people being equal one world working in harmony and peace this was actually what was happening in the 60s with Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy both fighting for the world to move in this direction also at that time the Cold War was happening with Russia and America people were rallying for peace and the Committees on Nuclear Disarmament was formed to abolish the development of the atomic bomb.
Should Cleopatra have been portrayed as a white Anglo-Saxon woman when we know from the legends that surround her there is a tendency to obscure and distort the actual image of Cleopatra herself a more western image has emerged from the Roman writings we have no written histories or biographies of Cleopatra ever written by any ancient Egyptian that can be set beside the Roman accounts

Through Late 20th and 21st centuries the 1963 most spectacular production of Cleopatra was the most opulent and extravagant epics in film the background. Cleopatra is portrayed as the white Anglo-Saxon black haired light-skinned matured female, with the gold lavish jewels glamorous and colourful outfits, the makeup worn is typical of that century she has been portrayed as a powerful intellectual manipulative state's woman, with the two loves of her life being the feature of each representation Antony and