Fickle Love In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

Some would say that love is patient, love is gentle, love is understanding. Others would say that love is brittle, cold, and stubborn. In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare portrays love in a negative light. He shows this in Hero the events that Hero undergoes throughout the play, giving her affection on a silver platter at the expense of her happiness and reputation. Shakespeare depicts love as shallow, fickle, and disloyal through the events Hero experiences.

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare "Much Ado About Nothing" in fact has a great deal to say about love and marriage. What is Shakespeare trying to tell us about relationships between men and women? Compare the play's treatment of love with that in "Silas Marner" In "Much Ado About Nothing" there are many different forms of love and relationships that range from youthful infatuation to parental love. Shakespeare makes many comments about men and women and shows the audience a variety of both romantic and platonic relationships.

Love is an inescapable theme in Shakespeare's works, and in anyone's for that matter, but how he portrays it and is able to create complex, intelligent characters that still trip over themselves and can't see past the deception of others. What Shakespeare is saying with his depiction and treatment of love in Much Ado About Nothing is that it is fleeting and often misleading. It forces you into a terrible situation, and can ruin people's lives but despite it all it’s what everyone wants even if they won't admit it. Shakespeare creates theses characters that mess up and lie to each other for the fun of it, and those characters that are relatable even today today is why Shakespeare is still relevant.

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Shakespeare’s use of metaphors throughout “Much Ado About Nothing” helped us better understand the depth to the characters. This was especially true for the hilarious couple Beatrice and Benedict. In the beginning, it seemed as though they would never get along. However, as they continue to bicker, the reader begins to pick up on the playful- flirty nature of the bickering. Shakespeare’s use of metaphors makes this particularly apparent, and quite entertaining. We can see that Beatrice and Benedict don’t really hate each other because they say things that are mean, but are also very hinting and flirtatious.

William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado about Nothing traverses the complex social, and emotional trials and triumphs of romantic relationships; Shakespeare’s perspective on the subject is both very similar to ours today, and different. Although filled with sexual innuendos, and humorous trickery and shenanigans, Much Ado about Nothing also dives into the complexities of social anxieties, defense mechanisms to cope with the social pressures, and the emotions involved.

In Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare depicts both Benedick and Beatrice as characters with one major flaw: both are full of pride. With the use of the masquerade scene, as well as the orchard scenes, Shakespeare allows the characters to realize their awry characteristic. By realizing their erroneous pride, Benedick and Beatrice are able to correct this and not only become better citizens, but fall in love.

During 1500’s, marriage was arranged between two people and love was of a rare occurrence. In William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing, two sworn rivals fall for each other when they hear the other harbors romantic feelings for them. Along with these lies and deceit spread around them that will forever change their lives. Through Claudio’s attitude toward Hero after being manipulated into believing she is cheating, and Benedick’s attitude after he discovers Beatrice has romantic feelings for him, Shakespeare suggests that true love and marriage can go together but do not need to go together.

In many of Shakespeare's plays, there is a theme of love and quite often marriage. This may lead one to the question of whether the great William Shakespeare effectively or ineffectively uses and depicts said theme. One can be lead to believe that he, indeed, does effectively depict and employ the theme of love and marriage by examining this theme in both Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet.

Much Ado about Nothing is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare. Deception is a repeated theme throughout the play and it performs an essential role in the matters relating to romance. There are two couples who unwittingly are participants in the matchmaking and the match breaking schemes of others. There is Claudio of Florence and Benedick of Padua who arrive at Leonato’s house in Messina with Don Pedro, after being away in battle. Then, there is Hero, Leonato’s daughter, and heir, as well as her devoted cousin, Beatrice. In Much Ado about Nothing Shakespeare uses language and literary devices to reassure the audience that love will persevere and prevail in the end. He achieves this by juxtaposing Benedick and Beatrice with Claudio and Hero.

Centralized around relationships and the nature of love, sacrifices come hand-in-hand with relationships in the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Seaking love and commitment, Hero, the virtuous daughter of Leonato, chooses to sacrifice truth to regain her relationship with her love Claudio; as well as protecting her pure character. This demonstrating how a sacrifice is that sincerest form of action that can demonstrate what a person values. Accused of infidelity, Hero’s reputation was deeply tarnished by her fiance Claudio publicly on the day of their wedding. Having no knowledge of the situation she was being defamed for, Hero was left defenseless to prove her innocence at the time of the accusation.

Though commonly recognized for writing sentimental tragedies, playwright William Shakespeare cleverly comments on social behavior in comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Rather than focusing merely on individual romantic endeavors, the plot centers on the witty exchanges between main characters Benedick and Beatrice, and the love story the other characters intend to create. The chaos resulting from this wishful romanticization results in many of the story’s conflicts, a series of deceptions and masked feelings. Featuring slapstick, malapropisms, and confusion, Much Ado About Nothing both propels and enhances the jocular storyline through explicit and implicit humor. As the play begins, Beatrice jokingly slanders the then-absent Benedick,

But not all is well with the relationship of Claudio and Hero as Don John plots to split them up to ruin Claudio and his brother Don Pedro and the way he is going to make this happen is by making it look like a officer is having and affair with claudio’s finance and make him break his engagement. This breaks Claudio's heart and makes a bid scandal at the wedding saying she is no longer a virgin and will not marry a pure women. This ruins the wedding as well as Hero for she is torn about how Claudio does not trust her and tells her all these mean things and as a reciprocation of Claudio's actions, Hero's father wants her banished and killed and wants nothing to do with her but the priest convinces Leonato not to kill Hero and tell Claudio that she has died. During all of this it is discovered that it was all the fault of Don John that the wedding was put of and was at fault for the death of Hero. Once Claudio hears about this he is torn and his heart broken for letting Hero die and is at the service of Leonato for letting him down as well as hero and will do anything to in a way pay him

The concept of love has always been a controversial topic. Love is a profound and complex feeling developed overtime and involves more than just looks. Countless individuals are repetitively convinced that they have met ‘the one’, where in actuality it is only an infatuation that lasts for a short period of time. This theme is prominent in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. First of all, Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is purely physical attraction and they know nothing regarding the other person’s character and personality. Moreover, the short passionate romance that they experience mostly comes from the thrill of rebelling expectations. Lastly, the fast-paced events leads the characters to make rash and unwise decisions involving their

present and one of those is the theme of love. Philia, Eros, and Agape are the three types of love present in the play and are what represent the theme of love. These three types of love, Philia, Eros, and Agape are expressed by the different characters in the play. The expression of the theme of love in the play is not just there by accident; William Shakespeare put it in this comedic and romantic play with a purpose.