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Love is a complex emotion and the idea of wanting someone can sometimes replace the feeling of true love. In Shakespeare's comedic tragedy Much Ado About Nothing, Hero and Claudio aren't in love, they don't ever get to know each other but only fall in love with each others looks and the idea of the other. They fall in love with the idea of having someone to care about. They fall apart easily and give up without fighting for each other. True love is caring and it is something worth fighting for…

Essay “An audience awareness about a subject that differs from what the characters know.” Dramatic irony shows up intensely in the playwrite from William Shakespeare named Much Ado About Nothing. It releases suspense in the minds of the reader, or audience and controls the audience so they are on the edge of their seat. The characters use many examples of dramatic irony to strike worry, and fear in the hearts of the readers. First of all, dramatic irony possess the brains of the readers and…

in Much Ado About Nothing, a comedy by William Shakespeare, are victims of miscommunication, deceit, and social injustices. Hero, the main victim in the story, had the chance to have her dignity and social status saved when Dogberry and his watchmen forced the truth about Don John’s destructive plan through Borachio. Instead, Dogberry found the chance to reveal the truth after Hero has already been humiliated by Claudio and Don Pedro. The order of events in Much Ado About Nothing was constructed…

“Peace! I will stop your mouth[with a kiss].” In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Benedick and Beatrice serve as the comedic relief characters, which the plot is steeped in, through their actions of reasonableness, moonstruck ness, and tsundere like actions. Benedick and Beatrice are contradictory in many ways, one way is that Beatrice is reasonable while Benedick is moonstruck, which sucks the plot through a series of humorous paradoxes. In the first quote, Leonato, Claudio, and…

some people believe that deceit in the play much ado about nothing does not led to a happy ending. While others agree that deceit does led to happy outcomes in the end. In Shakespeare’s play, Much ado about nothing, deceit was used as sometimes necessary tool to build a happy ending, for three examples are: the weeding of Hero and Claudio, the confession of love between Beatrice and Benedick, and the friendship of Claudio, Don Pedro, and Benedick. The first example where deceit led to a…

In Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing deception is a common theme. Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato tricked Benedick, Hero and Ursula gulled Beatrice, while Don Pedro and his lackeys deceived Claudio. Lies and trickery are laced throughout the entire play. But why? Why does Shakespeare have this apparent fascination with fraud? It could be that he is displaying the type of deception that brings out the truth, healing, and life, in comparison to lies that lead to false assumptions, pain,…

Gender is a huge theme in Shakespeare’s play Much Ado about Nothing and the idea of gender roles is essential to the framework for the plot, the characters and even the language of the play. Much Ado is largely influenced by the inequality of the sexes within Elizabethan Era society. This inequality is frequent in the treatment of women throughout the play, the personalities of each individual character and the language Beatrice uses. The play’s plot consists of two contrasting couples:…

Beatrice and Benedick, the unlikely couple who ends up getting married, but was it really true love, or just a forced relationship? In the beginning of the book, Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick absolutely hated each other, and they both found joy in insulting one another. They also shared the belief that marriage was stupid and that neither of them would ever get married. SInce they both shared this thought process, they were able to accept each other, and love is being able to…

True Love, False Words, Or the Other Way Around? Honesty is one of the most important traits valued by society, but in reality, one might not be so honest about certain subjects. In William Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, many characters turned against their words for money, love, and revenge‏. Through the series of lies in the plot, Shakespeare explored the theme that one’s words are not always consistent with one’s actions and true feelings. Firstly, there is the false lover…

Throughout the beginning of Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick are always seen bickering and insulting each other. Both characters strongly believe that they shall never fall in love, especially with each other. Nevertheless, Don Pedro with the help of the family members manage to manipulate…