Much Ado About Nothing

“Peace! I will stop your mouth[with a kiss].” In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Benedick and Beatrice serve as the comedic relief characters, which the plot is steeped in, through their actions of reasonableness, moonstruck ness, and tsundere like actions. Benedick and Beatrice are contradictory in many ways, one way is that Beatrice is reasonable while Benedick is moonstruck, which sucks the plot through a series of humorous paradoxes. In the first quote, Leonato, Claudio, and…

some people believe that deceit in the play much ado about nothing does not led to a happy ending. While others agree that deceit does led to happy outcomes in the end. In Shakespeare’s play, Much ado about nothing, deceit was used as sometimes necessary tool to build a happy ending, for three examples are: the weeding of Hero and Claudio, the confession of love between Beatrice and Benedick, and the friendship of Claudio, Don Pedro, and Benedick. The first example where deceit led to a…

Beatrice and Benedick, the unlikely couple who ends up getting married, but was it really true love, or just a forced relationship? In the beginning of the book, Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick absolutely hated each other, and they both found joy in insulting one another. They also shared the belief that marriage was stupid and that neither of them would ever get married. SInce they both shared this thought process, they were able to accept each other, and love is being able to…

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,…

anything for each other and care strongly about the other. Are Benedick and Beatrice from Shakespeare’s “Much Ado about Nothing,” really in love with each other? Benedick and Beatrice are in love because even though they were tricked into being with each other, they still were writing poems for each other and ended up getting married. Although Benedick and Beatrice may have been tricked into falling in love, they still fell for each other after they figured out about it. “This can be no…

In the play Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, two unlikely candidates supposedly fall in love; Beatrice and Benedick. Beatrice and Benedick had a history of disdain for one another, before they “fell in love”. The only reason they each decide to return the other's love after being deceived into thinking that the other is in love with them. Beatrice is then very quick to use Benedicks supposed love for her to her advantage. Beatrice and Benedick are not truly in love because if…

“A miracle! Here’s our own hands against our hearts” (5.4.91). This proclamation, made by the sworn interminable bachelor Benedick of the play Much Ado About Nothing, expresses the love he vowed he’d never fall into, and demonstrates the extreme effect that a lie can spark. His story with Beatrice, another character, shows that good things can result out of deceitful situations, while Hero’s, another character’s, shows that that is not always the case. Throughout the play, William Shakespeare…

Forever Bachelor to Married Man While reading Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, it is clear from the beginning that Benedick and Beatrice, two of the main characters, have an undiscovered affection for one another. As the play progresses, Beatrice and Benedick continue on in their usual witty banter and “merry war”, but, in a sudden plot twist, they have a change in their emotions and think of what the future could hold if they were together. John Paul II has distinguished beliefs on…

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…

Tiffany Liang Ms. Maher Period 1 2/7/16 Much Ado About Nothing Double Entry Journal Act I Scene Quote/Passage Analysis Citation 1 O Lord… he be cured. In this passage, Beatrice uses simile to compare Benedick to a disease. This shows how she sees Benedick-- an unwanted, irritating, detrimental pestilence, with the ability to drive people downright insane. On the contrary, Beatrice thinks well of Claudio, especially compared to Benedick. She hopes he would not be affected by “the…