jueves, 10 de abril de 2008

Heroes and heroines

We are going to talk about the main characteristics and roles during his periods of government and about the reasons that make that these women were so famous and remembered. Also we are going to realize that these queens were very significant to the ancient civilization not only because of their beauty, but also because of their historical acts. In this essay we are going to compare Cleopatra and Nefertiti, both of them queens of the ancient civilization of Egypt,

Both of them were beautiful ladies of Egypt, as we know Cleopatra is remembered because of her beauty but Nefertiti too, because her name means “the beauty arrives”, another similarity is that they govern Egypt during long time periods, also they developed an excellent role in the political aspect for example Cleopatra fought with her brother to obtain the power and the control of Egypt, and Nefertiti fought with many people to have influence in politics to obligate her husband to built the new capital of the empire. And the last thing in common between these heroines is that both of them had the ability to dominate men, because each one used different kinds of tools to maintain men over his domain.

Also we can recognize differences between Cleopatra and Nefertiti, for example the characteristics, Cleopatra was very classy, exotic and she had power to seduce men, also she has many knowledge in politics intelligence, but Nefertiti was very strong, feminist and delicate, also she participated in politics and religion, at the same time she was worried about family, while Cleopatra participated mostly in politics. Another big difference is the style of life because Cleopatra had a style very opened and we could say that she had a crazy life, like a free life, but Nefertiti had a style too conservative, like kind of modest; it is possible that the style of life determines the way of death, for example Cleopatra drink a poison to suicide and Nefertiti death because of a disease.

All in all, these heroines of the ancient Egypt had differences and similarities according to their goals; it is significant to recognize that both of them triumph in what they propose not only because of their beauty, they triumph because of the abilities previously mentioned.





By: María Carolina Barón Aristizábal

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