Cleopatra's characterization in Act II scene II.

In the secon act, scene two, Cleopatra is characterize as that avoids from every man. Indeed she is described by Enobarbus in a “barge”: water is one of the four elemnets of nature. Specially it symbolizes the avoid, fertility, emotions, something that changes.

Futhermore she is described as an asiatic queen. This is connotate by the expressions “she sat in a burnished throne”, “pavillion”, “cloth-of-gold” and “bend”. So she is characterized as a asiatic queen because she is better that other people.

In my opinion, the playwriter creates a negative judgment of Cleopatra, because she hadn't the futures of a Roman king: Indeed in Rome the citizens never bend to their king.