1.       Antony gives promise to Octavia and expresses to her that his duties will keep him from being with her and that he will avoid any sexual discretion from his very past. Octavius Caesar and Octavia leave him while Antony departs to be with his Egyptian queen. Later he finds himself with the soothsayer and he asks him about his future. The soothsayer tells him how Caesar will rise to higher standards than Antony will so he needs to keep his space between them. The soothsayer also articulates that Caesar will overshadow Antony’s ruling and power so Anthony disregards his fortune and goes seek pleasure in Cleopatra.  

2.       In this scene in act 2,Lepidus orders Maecenas and Agrippa to gather their soldiers and meet at Mount Misenum, where they shall confront Pompey’s army.

3.       Cleopatra amuses herself with her servants like chairman, and Mardian,a enuch as she thinks back about Antony and in this time her messenger comes back from Italy. The Messenger when he enters Cleopatra’s chamber he is well aware of her reaction to his say. Antony will bewed Octavia. Cleopatra in deep grief and anger treats the messenger viciously. The messenger repeats the unbarring truth and asks about her physical appearance. The way her hair looks, her age, and her actions. 

4.       Before commencing a war, Pompey and the triumvirs hold a meeting. Pompey tells Caesar, Lepidus, and Antony that he is fighting to punish his father, whose overthrow by Julius Caesar led him into Egypt, where he was murdered. Antony notifies Pompey that in spite of the latter’s power at sea, the triumvirs’ militia will succeed. The 3 offer Pompey regulations over Sicily and Sardinia should he agree to rid the sea of pirates and to send payments of wheat to Rome as a tax. 

5.       Pompey invites the Romans aboard his ship for dinner, and the triumvirs join him. Enobarbus and Menas stay behind discussing their military careers, the current political situation, and Antony’s marriage to Octavia. Enobarbus repeats that he is sure Antony will inevitably return to Egypt. After the talk, the two go to dinner.

2 Graphics in the link below:

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3 Methods 

- Simile: "The fancy outwork nature: on each side her
 Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids,
 With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem
 To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool,
 And what they undid did."

-Personification: "Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,..."

-Irony: "It beggar'd all description: she did lie
In her pavilion--cloth-of-gold of tissue—
O'er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature: on each side her
Stood pretty dimpled boys."

Events

* the opposition  believe they have the upper hand because of Antony's "idleness"

* Agrippa suggests that Antony marry Caesar's sister, Octavia. They believe that it is a good idea

* The soothsayer tells Antony to have a "gap" between him and Caesar because he is weak around him and Antony brushes it off too quickly

* The triumvirate form a treaty with Pompey

* Menas had the chance to kill the triumvirate but because he told Pompey, and because Pompey is an honorable man, Menas can no longer do this

methods

* foreshadowing- the soothsayer, Enobarbus believing that antony will go back to cleopatra, lepidus's inability to hold his drink

* Honor- some believe that antony is an honorable man and that marrying Octavia will solve every because he will stay faithful. Honor is what stopped Menas from killing the triumvirate 

Act 2, Scene 2 
Gender roles:
“If Antony were to take Octavia as his wife…Since she would love both of/you, you two would be joined in that love.”
- Agrippa is suggesting Antony to marry Octavia now that Fulvia is dead. He is doing so because he sees how Antony marrying Octavia helps them politically and binds the men together. It keeps Antony in Rome, instead of in Egypt.

“other women cloy / The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry / where she most satisfies.”
- Enobarbus thoroughly describes Cleopatra’s love and says it’s addictive but dangerous, how it only makes Antony want more. 

Act 2, Scene 3
Dramatic irony:
“If thou dost play with him at any game, / Thou art sure to lose.” 
- Antony tries to guess his future but in reality, the audience knows how it’s going to play out. Just how the soothsayer told him