About Love Essay

“Much Ado About Nothing,” playwright William Shakespeare gives us five examples of deception that contribute to the play’s theme: love will always have moments that are deceitful and treacherous. Throughout the plot of the play, Shakespeare has characters find ways to scheme one another with the purpose of creating new love or causing trouble in relationships. The first example of deception is shown when Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio speak about how Beatrice is “madly in love” with…

poet, having written at least 35 plays (Shakespeare FAQ). In his many plays, love was a very common theme, especially conflict within love. Needless to say, in Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado about Nothing, love is the main theme and conflict. All of the characters get wrapped up in the conflict in some way or another, especially two of the lead roles, Benedick and Claudio. Here is a very quick summary of Much Ado about Nothing to get the main idea. Hero, the daughter of the Governor of Messina,…

INTRO GHE BOOK In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare suggests that it is difficult to express feelings for somebody when they don’t know how the other person feels. Beatrice, one of the main characters in the Shakespearean play, was incredibly quick to deny her love for Benedick and start mocking him. In various scenes, she is heard teasing and criticizing him for traits such as his failed wittiness. She even tells him, ¨A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.¨ (Act 1, Scene 1,…

exact revenge, to get information, or for the benefit of others. There are many forms of deception that take place in the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Don John deceives to make Claudio angry, Benedick deceives to know what Beatrice thinks about him, and Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio deceive Benedick to make him happy and have him fall in love with Beatrice. A reason why one might deceive another is to get revenge for a thing that was done to them. Don John, Don Pedro’s…

play Much Ado About Nothing, the two most famous scenes are probably the two gulling scenes. Gulling, means to deceive, the two gulling scenes in Shakespeare play, therefore, are the two deception scenes. Now why are these scenes famous, because each deception is different, the only thing they have in common are that both involve deception. In the first gulling scene (Act 2 Scene 3) Don Pedro has created a scheme to have the characters Benedick and Beatrice fall in love. there…

of Malvolio, Malvolio’s self-deception and Orsino’s exaggeration of feelings to express love. Many of the comical situations that occur throughout the play provide the comedy of dramatic irony to further entertain the audience. Shakespeare’s representation of Malvolio is negative in the way that he portrays him as pompous and arrogant, making him a very dislikable character. Malvolio’s belief that Olivia loves him when she really has no clue adds comedy to this play as we can tell that he…

similar, except it’s a “Benedick and Beatrice” situation. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, or MAAN for short, is a play about a bouquet of series of characters who each have their own story. One of the pairs of characters is Benedick the gentleman soldier (an eminent one, too), whilst the other is Beatrice the quick-witted matron. These two characters may seem to contrast… but do they really? It’s easy to trick two to love each other, after all. In the beginning, Benedick and…

True love is a concept that is requires laughter and the act of highlighting one another’s unique qualities. Shakespeare’s comedy play Much Ado About Nothing is about a group of family and friends and their adventures having to do with love. Two couples end up finding love, Hero and Claudio and Beatrice and Benedick, these two couples have completely different characteristics about them. Beatrice and Benedick’s relationship is very full of spite at the beginning, but through the course of the…

opinion to Benvolio: “If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark./Now will he sit under a medlar tree/And wish his/ mistress were that kind of fruit/ As maids call medlars when they laugh alone.—/ O Romeo, that she were! Oh, that she were/ An open arse, and thou a poperin pear” (2.1.33-38). We can tell that Mercutio doesn’t believe in love. By using a metaphor he means that a man will fall in love no matter what and with whom. Mercutio totally does not understand this love and true feelings and…

Much Ado About Nothing Response Question: Describe what happens in a visual text you have studied and explain what this text made you think about. Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a film adaption of William Shakespeare’s original play. In this film we watch a humorous drama unfold regarding the love lives of our main characters, which uses element of confusion and deception to . This film brought to light the different approach that the people had towards marriage and…