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    In Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare obsesses over the abundance of rumors within the play whether it being good or bad. The play Much Ado About Nothing is based on the common fact that rumors are spread intentionally to either bring people together or tear them apart. Ethically speaking the play is derived from the common theme of romance and the trials and tribulations it brings along the way. While looking into the characters more in depth, many characters take note of each other,…

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    In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, the characters Benedick, Beatrice, Hero and Claudio all have very different relationships. Beatrice and Benedick have never been civil with each other, and whenever they meet, they often have a skirmish of words between the two. They have known each other “of old” and seem to enjoy fencing insults back and forth between them, using insults to convey their true feelings of affection towards one another. The relationship of Claudio and…

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    Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice serve similar roles in their respective novels. The characters are a mirror image of each other, acting the same way and holding similar opinions about marriage and love. The role that these characters play serve as a counterexample to women who followed expectations surrounding marriage at the time, which overall serves to criticize the broken marriage system. Both Beatrice and Elizabeth are oddly uninterested…

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    Everyone has a different idea when it comes to how to react or take action in something. In the book Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, it shows the differences between two best friends that have almost nothing in common as they both go through an adventure with love. The two of them are either willing or unwilling to love a man. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Beatrice serves as a foil character of Hero by which Hero’s foolishness are illuminated through Beatrice’s…

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    The main characters 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…

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    William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” has two characters with the honorable title Don. The characters, however, Don Pedro and Don John couldn’t be more different. Don Pedro, the Prince of Aragon pays a visit to Leonato, the governor of Messina while returning from a war against his rebellious brother, Don John the bastard. With him are two of his officers, Claudio and Benedick. From the beginning to the end of the play, two love stories are intertwined. One story follows the traditional…

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    Love is a subject that is widely known. Love plays a prominent role in the play, Much Ado About Nothing, written by the famous William Shakespeare. A question asked through the entire play is, are Hero and Claudio, two of the main lovebirds, really in love? Hero and Claudio are not in love, but are infatuated with each other because they have only known each other for a short time, do not care for each other deeply, and are harsh and quick with emotions regarding each other. According to the…

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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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    The Nothing That Is, by Robert Kaplan is an intriguing book that focuses on the history of civilizations and their ways of counting. It focuses on the struggles and revolutionary discoveries of different civilizations in their number systems. The book is pushed forward by focusing on the concept of the number “0” which had not been a thing or even a thought then. Zero has been in the making for thousands of years. It wasn’t introduced into any of the civilizations sets of counting until more…

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    humble, and very few things are facts most things come down to perspective. My personal philosophy is “nothing ventured nothing gained” and this is my personal philosophy because if you don 't venture you won 't grow as a person, you get to will live life more since it allows you to experience new things and it cuts back regrets you might have for not doing said action. Nothing ventured nothing gained is very self explanatory, it means that if you do not go out and try different things, go new…

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