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Charmian

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Charmian
kills herself after mistress Cleopatra’s death. [Br. Lit.: Antony and Cleopatra]
See : Suicide

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The image of assured friendship as a shared body helps explain why Falstaff and Enobarbus die when severed from their masters, but Weil also suggests that Antony and Cleopatra are equally dependent on their servants' wit, and suffer disaster when they fail to interpret correctly insights which are provided by Enobarbus and Charmian in a jesting mode of "calculated openness" which leaves the masters "free to grasp" the meaning (97).
For the first year of the Academy, President Pura included in the instructional team Patricia Crosson from the original planning group; Kate Douglas, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Greenfield Community College (GCC) and GCC liaison to the Academy; Kerry Ann O'Meara, Assistant Professor at UMASS Amherst; and Charmian Sperling, Provost Emerita and Vice President for Educational Development at Middlesex Community College.
nbsp;after spending the last couple of years living with his Aunt Charmian following the deaths of his parents in a mountain climbing incident.
 
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