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Another analysis of Cymbeline comes from John Kerrigan, and it revolves around how the play uses certain scenes to indicate how outside cultures introduced in the play, inherit a role towards undermining the power of the British identities the characters have.  For example, in the scene where we see Iachimo essentially “rape” Imogen while she sleeps, it signifies how Britain was literally being taken over by both Roman and Latin cultures at the time. Kerrigan also ultimately argues that the emphasis the play puts on analyzing Romans being in Britain (and what that entails socially as a outsider within a particular place), is a greater reflection of alienation within Britain itself (Kerrigan 132). This account pairs with Mary Floyd-Wilson’s take, who feels as though Imogen acts as a personified version of Britain itself (Floyd-Wilson 105).