The Resentful Butterfly on the Banks of the Nile

Cleopatra: Cleopatra VII of the Ptolemaic dynasty. Of Macedonian descent, she was born in 69 BC and ruled as queen of Egypt. She died by suicide in 30 BC. The people in this play struggled all their lives, yet in the end, never lived to reap the harvest. How can a vine that clings to a great tree continue to flourish after the tree falls? Was she destined to depend on the tree because she was a vine, or did she become a vine because she depended on the tree? Perhaps it was fate's cruel trick, or perhaps she simply took a wrong turn from the very beginning. Premise: