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    in Much Ado About Nothing are two pairs of lovers: Hero and Claudio, and Beatrice and Benedick. Claudio falls in love with Hero at the start whereas Benedick and Beatrice have to be tricked into loving each other. The play revolves around these four characters as their love develops. Hero is the beautiful daughter of Leonato, Governor of Messina. She is said to be a foil for Beatrice, to showcase her friend’s outspoken and shrewd personality. Hero is passive, perhaps naïve about love, but seems…

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    level of his later work. During the beginning of Shakespeare’s career, Shakespeare mostly wrote history plays and comedies. Toward the middle of his career, when he wrote, “Much Ado About Nothing,” considered Shakespeare’s best comedy play, thus showing how Shakespeare was becoming a great play writer. “Much Ado About Nothing” was written in 1598, during the middle of Shakespeare’s career, the middle of Shakespeare’s career was where Shakespeare began to hone his craft. Thus, Shakespeare…

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    depicts the introduction and rising action of the story until it reaches the peak, known as the climax, which is followed by a drop called the falling action or denouement (Brown and Yarbrough, 51). In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio, a young noblemen, falls in love with a lady named Hero and they plan to be married. However the prince Don Pedro’s brother Don John, who travels with the prince and Claudio, conducts a plan to foil the wedding by falsely destroying Hero’s virginal…

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    Gossip in Much Ado about Nothing and in the Real World “They say the lady is fair. ‘Tis a truth, I can bear them witness. And virtuous—’tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise, but for loving me. By my troth, it is no addition to her wit—nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her.” Act 3 scene 2.Throughout the play everyone is either gossiping or overhearing someone else gossip. Gossip occurs frequently in the play. Most of the gossiping that occurs in the play is…

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    within two characters. The novel Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is a novel revolving around the act of deception. Where Claudio, a young soldier, falls in love with Hero, the daughter of Leonato. They are to be married, but are deceived, therefore interrupting the marriage. Meanwhile Benedick, a soldier and man that swears against love, falls in love with Beatrice, the niece of Leonato, who also swears against love. They fall hopelessly in love through the act of deception. This…

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    On the book Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is an excellent play and comedy. I am excellent to talk about trickery and deceit in the story. Trickery was used to generate Beatrice and Benedick to fall in love with one another and making them think that they have feelings for each other, Hero and her family lied to Claudio that she has died, and also that Leonato explained to Claudio think that he was gonna marry Beatrice because of what he did to Leonato’s daughter Hero.…

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    Literature Much Ado about Nothing and Life of an Amorous Woman are two texts whose authors have evidently used the element of true love to narrate the stories. Much Ado about Nothing is a play by Shakespeare that tells the story of two sets of lovers: Claudio and Hero, who fall in love and decide to get married, and Beatrice and Benedick, who are in constant war of witty insults and refuse to admit the love they have for each other. Life of an Amorous Woman is a story by Saikaku that is about an…

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    mutual trust. Shakespeare does not return to the typical depictions that correspond to those times, but rather he explores love as an imperfect part of the human nature. Love and troubled relationships are a typical part of nature that is sometimes effortless but most times uneasy and challenging to balance. In Much Ado About Nothing, Othello and Macbeth, themes and motifs of love and problematic relations are not necessarily the forefront but the backbone of Shakespearean plays.…

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    Love is an intangible feeling that you have towards someone; meaning you care for them so much you would make any sacrifice for them. In ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ by William Shakespeare many characters come to believe that they are in love, such as Claudio and Hero. Claudio doesn't love Hero. Hero does not love Claudio. In Act 2 Scene 1 Claudio says, “Lady, as you are mine, I am yours. I give away myself for you, and dote upon the exchange.” (Shakespeare) Essentially what is happening is Caudio…

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    Deceit According to a study done in 2011 people who are chronic liars sometimes fool themselves, they start performing better, changing their attitude, and even falling in love. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, trickery and deceit are a key part in the story line. Beatrice and Benedick are tricked into falling in love with each other, and Don John tricks Everyone into a horrible mess which twist the story line into a different place. Don John is one of the most deceptive…

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