Riyan Rodriguez
8 A.M.
Its almost seems to be human nature to make light of bad situations to cope. The play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare is a comedy that makes a great example of this. Throughout much of the play the characters joke of cuckoldry, or the act of a man having his wife cheat on him. This thought of cuckoldry seems to loom about the entire play as the overruling theme. But with this theme comes a deeper more serious matter which is centralized to the unequal gender status between men and women; exemplified in Leonato 's speech in Act 4 scene 1 (128-151).
This play shows how the mistakes of a women are so harshly criticised by the society around them. In Much Ado Leonato comes off as a very loving and easy going …show more content…
Borachio set up Hero by having an affair with with Margrete and pretending it is Hero. But when this comes out Borachio’s reputation isn 't blasted for having sexual relations before marriage. Although Leonato still is angry and puts borachio down for what did, he isn 't ever harassed for committing adultery. If Borachio were a woman it has already been show that that information wouldn 't have slipped the conversation as it did so easily for him. Keeping in mind that Borachio isn 't even related to Leanato like Hero is, Leonato embarresses Hero for the act of adultery and sentences her to a far worse punishment. The fact that Hero, a woman, allegedly committed the same actions of premarital sex as Borachio, and suffered far greater from it, proves the unfair gender expectations that exist in this play.
The play Much Ado About Nothing is quite an entertaining play full of a lot of laughs. But when taking a closer look one can really get an overlying sense of misogyny throughout the entire play. Hero is completely harasses and humiliated for doing something that a man wouldn 't ever be questioned for. Although this is a made up play and society, one must step back and ask themselves, is there much difference between the plays fantasy world and the world we live in
8 A.M.
Its almost seems to be human nature to make light of bad situations to cope. The play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare is a comedy that makes a great example of this. Throughout much of the play the characters joke of cuckoldry, or the act of a man having his wife cheat on him. This thought of cuckoldry seems to loom about the entire play as the overruling theme. But with this theme comes a deeper more serious matter which is centralized to the unequal gender status between men and women; exemplified in Leonato 's speech in Act 4 scene 1 (128-151).
This play shows how the mistakes of a women are so harshly criticised by the society around them. In Much Ado Leonato comes off as a very loving and easy going …show more content…
Borachio set up Hero by having an affair with with Margrete and pretending it is Hero. But when this comes out Borachio’s reputation isn 't blasted for having sexual relations before marriage. Although Leonato still is angry and puts borachio down for what did, he isn 't ever harassed for committing adultery. If Borachio were a woman it has already been show that that information wouldn 't have slipped the conversation as it did so easily for him. Keeping in mind that Borachio isn 't even related to Leanato like Hero is, Leonato embarresses Hero for the act of adultery and sentences her to a far worse punishment. The fact that Hero, a woman, allegedly committed the same actions of premarital sex as Borachio, and suffered far greater from it, proves the unfair gender expectations that exist in this play.
The play Much Ado About Nothing is quite an entertaining play full of a lot of laughs. But when taking a closer look one can really get an overlying sense of misogyny throughout the entire play. Hero is completely harasses and humiliated for doing something that a man wouldn 't ever be questioned for. Although this is a made up play and society, one must step back and ask themselves, is there much difference between the plays fantasy world and the world we live in