Play Analysis
BS Media 2C
Zeeshan Haider
16 March, 2018
“Much Ado About Nothing” Act 2 Scene 3 Analyses
In the following act, Shakespeare places Benedick all alone in the orchard by himself, despising the love of Claudio. He knew Claudio as a man who laughed when the subject of love was discussed around him, now suddenly is talking about his love for Hero and his feelings for her. He knew him as a warrior who would’ve walked miles for a piece of armor that met his requirement, and now he would rather stay up all night thinking of the design he wants on his doublet he would wear on the day of his wedding. Benedick knew Claudio as a man who spoke plain and to the point without any diversion is now a man who speaks in riddles. He thinks that loved has turned such a great warrior soft.
Shakespeare tries to get the audience to sympathies with Benedick as he too seeks love and affection from someone, as the dialogue suggest that Benedick maybe a witty person, but he has dug too deep into his witty personality that he despises love and he requires so many features in a single women that no one women can satisfy his needs but multiple women are required. He thinks too highly of himself and that only when the woman he truly loves comes into her life, he won’t let love make a fool himself and make him a subject of embarrassment.
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Balthasar assures the gents that he will try his best and leaves. Now the group comes back to their original plan of tricking Benedick into falling in love with Beatrice. Shakespeare writes the following part in such a way that an invisible net set by Don Pedro, Leonato and, Claudio is only visible to the audience as the conversation gradually proceeds and experience how the net takes form while intrigued that will Benedick not know that a deception lies upon