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    The belief that in love opposites attract is challenged during Much Ado About Nothing I believe Shakespeare uses Benedict and Beatrice’s comic relationship as an example of why this statement is only applicable in some cases. Benedick and Beatrice have similar eccentric personalities and this is evidently shown throughout the play. From the start of the play it can be noticed that Beatrice and Benedick have history together and a spark which causes their eventual coming together through the…

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    Joycelyn Liu Return Policy Love is, if anything, a mutual decision between two people to start and maintain a relationship, and communication then plays a significant role in that relationship’s success. On one hand, Claudio and Hero’s relationship in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing falls apart, in part due to their utter lack of onstage interaction, as well as Claudio’s oscillation between loving and despising Hero. On the other hand, Benedict and Beatrice’s relationship in the play is…

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    painful cost, can reveal a lot about what and who they value. In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, the character Benedick sacrifices his previously held ideas about love, as well as his pride, showing that he values Beatrice’s love and commitment to himself in addition to the institution of marriage; His sacrifices illuminate the larger theme in the play of the changing power of love. Benedick gives up his previous “strongly held” beliefs about love relatively quickly,…

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    Don Pedro Foil

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    that two people are the complete opposite of eachother? This is called a character foil, and this can easily be seen in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespear. Much Ado About Nothing takes place in Messina, Italy, and is about Prince Don Pedro and his soldiers returning from war to Messina. When he arrives with his soldiers, a festival is thrown, which is when love and insanity ensue. However, Don John, Don Pedro’s evil brother, tries his best to ruin it all. In this way, Don Pedro and Don…

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    The book is a story about how two strangers fall in love and go places that some people could only dream about. However, they both share something in common. They have cancer. One of the amazing adventures that these characters go on is a trip to Amsterdam. In John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, using Love, Cancer, and Amsterdam, we learn that death cannot be a barrier to love, it should be an incentive to embrace it. The Love aspect of the book relates to the theme because Love is the reason…

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    Benedick’s Change In William Shakespeare’s play, Mucho Ado About Nothing, the characters change throughout the play in either a negative or positive way. One of the characters that changed was Benedick. Benedick changed his attitude for women and love from the beginning of the play until the very end. At start of the play, Benedick was a character who was very witty and fond of mocking other people with elaborate jokes, comparisons, and puns. He swears he will never marry, as he is critical of…

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    In Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing deception is a common theme. Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato tricked Benedick, Hero and Ursula gulled Beatrice, while Don Pedro and his lackeys deceived Claudio. Lies and trickery are laced throughout the entire play. But why? Why does Shakespeare have this apparent fascination with fraud? It could be that he is displaying the type of deception that brings out the truth, healing, and life, in comparison to lies that lead to false assumptions, pain,…

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    The romantic comedy, Much Ado About Nothing a play by William Shakespeare, showcases how deception can be viewed in more than one manner. These deceptions rely on the sender, and their tricks and lies can come with good intentions. This play celestially reveals how characters are deceived and how the tricks uncover their emotions, and why they behave in a certain manner. The use of lies and deception in Much Ado About Nothing highlights the idea that tricks and plans are not just for villains…

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    Don Pedro Foils

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    considered to be the greatest writer in the English language, wrote around thirty seven poems throughout his lifetime.(2) “Much Ado About Nothing”, one of his many dramas, is about soldiers returning home from a war to Messina, Italy.(3) Throughout the play, characters fall in love, rumors are spread, and people are brought closer together. (4)In the play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, Don John and Don Pedro are foils of each other because of their interactions with others,…

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    picking on each other, until one day Benedick heard Don Pedro, Leonato and Claudio talking about their plan to get Benedick and Beatrice together. Soon after Benedick knew he loved her and Beatrice heard the news too. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Beatrice serves as the foil character of Benedick by which Benedick’s precise self is revealed through Beatrice’s reluctance to share her love for him; thus, interminably influences the conflict of their relationship.…

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