The Role Of Rumors In Much Ado About Nothing

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“Words have no wings but they can fly thousands miles” In much ado about nothing by William Shakespeare. The play is about a bunch of liars that make rumors about friends/family etc. Rumors are a problem in this play because everyone makes rumors of each other and it's just so annoying how they make rumors and it seems like they don’t do anything about it and they just keep making rumors of each other.

Don john spreads a rumors about hero that destroys her relationship with claudio.
Hero was supposedly cheating on claudio and don john showed them proof which was all set up the night before the wedding, and at the wedding claudio told hero it was over and made a fool of her.”If you’re a virgin, you'll answer this question.You’ve stained your
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When Hero and Ursula catch sight of where Beatrice is hiding they begin to talk in loud voices.Hero tells Ursula that Claudio and Don John have informed her that Benedick is in love with Beatrice. Then Ursula suggest Hero to tell Beatrice about it, But Hero answers that everybody knows that beatrice is too full mockery to listen to any man courting her, Ursula replies by disagreeing with hero. “Hero must be mistaken because surely Beatrice is too intelligent and sensitive woman to reject Benedick, After all, everybody knows that Benedick is one of the cleverest and handsomest men in italy”{Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 102}. I chosed this quote because it explains Ursula’s thoughts about how Beatrice wouldn’t reject Benedick for being the cleverest and handsomest men in italy, Ursula probably spread this rumor because she knows how Beatrice wouldn’t reject

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