Introduction
Today is the day of Metoo’s,
seductions, rapes and flagging femininity. Yet no upheaval or reformation found
in the case of females. They went succumbed to all of them. Every today is very
important to them. They grasped the force of System. A Marks and an Engels may
point out the faults they found in Family, Property and the Individual .A
historian, S.A.Dangey may find in the Ancient history of India the power of
women. A Rahul Sankrityayan may fictionalize the power of
women in Volga to Ganges .Merely quoting , writing fiction
and non-fiction they comfortably forget that they are under the wheels of the
system. Their love is oriented on Family, Property
being unable to be an individual.
But In the ancient histories of
Egypt and Rome Cleopatra reigns supreme as a Queen and lover. There are many
novels, dramas and Films on her. I have
read some and seen three films, on Cinema halls and by online. The attraction
toward started from 1953. Something more powerful kind of attraction than
Cleopatra on Helen is still brewing in my mind
When beginning to write a
novel on Cleopatra why should I mention Helen? Both of them were great
beauties. The feminine physical beauty still rules the world of men as in the
days of Helen and Cleopatra. On the concept of in Tamil Literature
‘Thiruvenbadhu Kandaaraal kaanappadum thanmai nokkam –it means ‘A trait called
beauty is a perceptional vision of the visionary’
On Helen and Cleopatra two major
characteristic differences could easily be found. Helen was loved, but there
was not a stronger proof for her lovingness. Cleopatra was loved and she loved
.But her love was two sided; her country was the first love, the second the
love was for Antony. Both Helen and Cleopatra were mentally fed up with their old
lovers. Helen did not care being kidnapped by the young Paris. When she was
rescued we didn’t find her to be happy or sad. But Cleopatra suddenly reacted
by killing herself when Antony died. They remain till last the two great lovers.
Antony in his will, which he expressed the desire plainly. Wherever he might
die, is to be buried beside the woman, whom he loved to his latest hour.
Cleopatra was well aware of
it, especially, even when her life was surrounded with an atmosphere of romance
bordering on the fabulous. Even her bitterest foes admire her beauty and rare
gifts of intellect. She had a character with a sensitive sharpness, presents
one of the most difficult problems of psychology. The servility of Roman valor
got submitted to a feminine beauty. Everything
that bore the name of Egyptian was hateful or suspicious to the Romans. They
were hard to forgive this woman, born on the banks of the Nile, for having seen
Julius César at her feet and compelled Mark Antony to do her bidding.
Cleopatra was not an
individual like the love pairs who became immortal, such as Leila and Maznu, Devdas , Parvathi so and so. Cleopatra was in the centre of a larger group
of people, whom she influences, and who enable her personality to be displayed
in the various relations of life. But she was unable to express.
Horace one of the greatest
poets called Cleopatra “non humilis mulier”—a woman capable of no
baseness. Some dynamic power she had which is still alive even today throughout
the whole world makes me to write this with the question what it is?
Please come along with me.[posted in FB dt.26.07.20
Vaiyavan
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