Much Ado About Nothing

In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing many different forms of love are shown, that of brothers and sister, mature love, young love, and parent and child love. The main love I saw was young love, a love that was innocent, lusted for, shallow and conditional. That is the love between Claudio and Hero, they were very much in love and then when Claudio believed that Hero had cheated he stopped loving her. This to me is shallow love, you are suppose to love someone despite their flaws or mistakes.…

Much Ado About Nothing ICE: Honor and Shame Honor plays an extremely important role in the actions of the courtiers in Much Ado About Nothing. Appearance of being honorable to others matter excessively in the courtier system. For example, woman’s honor is mostly dependent on what courtier men think and the appearance of a virgin. This emphasis of honor causes some characters to lose loyalty and courtesy to maintain the appearance of being honorable. Honor is important enough that a courtier…

What is deception? Deception is “the act of making someone believe something that is not true.” Deception is a common subject for writers, and one example of deception is in the play, Much ado about Nothing, by the greatest writer of the English Language, Sir William Shakespeare. This play is about the antagonist (Don John) tricking a noble soldier, Claudio. His friends eventually uncover Don John’s plans and he is brought to justice. Deception is divided into classes, class one; lying to…

change a tinge? Maybe they’re polar opposites, yet also attract, or maybe they’re an angel and a devil, but turn to get along. Well, this situation is 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.…

“He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.” (Shakespeare 39) Much Ado About Nothing, written by William Shakespeare in the late 1500’s, was written during the mid point of his career and is considered to be one of his best comedies. Their is numerous times when noting, (overhearing, gossip, and rumors), is used in this play. The main characters, Benedict…

Though they adapt the same source material, through the skillful use of setting and cinematography, the openings of Joss Whedon’s and Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing present vastly different moods. Both contain sequences not featured in the text that add to their vision of Shakespeare’s original work - a triumphant and frenzied entrance in a bucolic setting for one, and an intimate abandonment in the other. Branagh’s production is a show, choosing to downplay the darker aspects of the…

Trickery and 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…

William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is a well-known comedy, a tale of lovers, haters and everything in between. The play focuses on two lovers who are captivated by each other’s looks the two care for little more in each other. On the other hand, another two lovers, Beatrice and Benedick, challenge each other’s quick wit and on the surface, seem to be a pain or burden to one another, yet they always find themselves talking or thinking about the other. Throwing insults, or witty humor…

I partly agree that the function of Beatrice and Benedick is simply to provide comic relief. Much ado about nothing is known as a comedy; however the plot and key parts of the play include serious themes like deception, wit and slander which overrule the humorous elements in the play. Beatrice and Benedick’s role could be strongly argued to fulfil the comical relief role and there is a clear contrast between serious themes with the witty characters of Beatrice and Benedick and their “merry-war.”…

Shakespearean comedies always have some level of scandalous misfortune that drives conflict. In the end, this scandalous misfortune finds a way to resolve itself and brings all of the characters together. In Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”, the character Claudio sacrifices his reputation in order to comply with his religious and social values. For a man of this time to violate those values would be deplorable. Claudio was a venerable character who was in love with the lady Hero. No one…