Much Ado About Nothing Essay

heart so that Benedick and she can be together. Beatrice’s submissiveness shows her subconscious yearnings to be in love, as well as Benedick – even though She and Benedick aren’t willing to admit it. The most heinous act of deception in Much Ado About Nothing is committed against Hero, the daughter of Leonato, and Claudio. These two characters, unlike Beatrice and Benedick, fall in love after seeing each other for the first time – Shakespeare’s classic case of love at first sight. The deception…

Inconstancy in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) explains inconstancy as the recurrent and generally unexpected or impulsive change from one condition to another. It is the state or quality of being inconstant and unfaithful by virtue of being undependable or deceitful. Set in Messina, Sicily, Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a very popular play generally viewed as one of his happiest comedies and is often performed in theatres. However, the playfulness…

This attitude is reflected in Shakespeare’s plays. For example, in Much Ado About Nothing, many f the characters have Italian names (Borachio, Claudio, etc.). This is also true of some of Shakespeare’s others plays such as The Taming of the Shrew, and Romeo and Juliet. Major Themes One of the major themes in Much Ado About Nothing centers around the question and battle between deception and reality. One first notices of the image of deception as we witness the masking and unmasking at the masquerade…

takes responsibility and gives his remorse and things turn out happily ever after. Beatrice is Benedick's love, and Leonato's niece. She is just like Benedick just from a girl's side of view. Those to bicker back and forth at each other so much that a person would think how could they ever fall in love together. Beatrice has a small little crush on Benedick, but it is hard to tell because she makes fun of him all the time. Before Benedick comes into Messina she asks how he is and if he is…

continues with Benedick and Beatrice front and center. This “merry war” sets the tone for things to come as the audience is shown firsthand the action that precedes them. Likewise, Kenneth Branagh understood the sheer importance of language within Much Ado and because of that, he kept majority of the lines in his movie. However, the similarities stop there as Branagh’s film focuses on visual imagery to gain the audience’s attention and shape the tone of the story. Whether it be Branagh’s clever usage…

would indeed be about nothing. The middle section of the play centers on the false assumptions of Benedick and Beatrice, as well as the lies told to Claudio about Hero's supposed death. Considering that the saga is thus based around lies and assumptions, which both amount to nothing in terms of the truth, we can conclude that the drama is indeed about nothing. Not even Don John manages to remove the nothingness from the play: he purposely invokes lies about Hero and Don Pedro…

Shakespeare seems to like in a character; he is amusing (his witty banter with Beatrice is where most of the humour in this play revolves around) and he is also able to laugh at himself- he takes in good humour like the teasing of his friends about his cynicism about matrimony. He is loving too, (an example of this is his poem to Beatrice) and also deadly serious is his love for her- he renounces his male comradeship to "kill Claudio" as she demands- he is prepared to give up his current, enjoyable…

‘unclasp her heart’ for Claudio, and uses the pronoun ‘I’ throughout. It is therefore extremely ironic that he goes on to say ‘she shall be thine’ as a pose to ‘mine’ which just shows the deceptive nature of the wooing, for, if Claudio loved Hero as much as he claimed, he would surely do it himself. This also portrays a strong sense of elitism and male dominance, which may depict Shakespeare views on Elizabethan England, perhaps how disguise and deception actually played a large part in society at…

cousin) has the audacity to take Claudio back after he has publicly humiliated her just because her father tells her to. This is another example of how tightly women were trapped under their father's rule. Beatrice and Benedick, however, in much contrast to Hero and Claudio are the ideal couple who are both equal in the relationship. Beatrice is an opinionated and stubborn woman who will have no one if she doesn't have the one she wants, which she makes clear throughout the play by refusing…

out the truth yourself, because it can turn into a rumor. False statements can destroy and brainwash people’s minds. Creating a rumor can also break a person’s relationship. Another example of a rumor being created is when Ursula and Hero talk about how Benedick loves Beatrice. “My talk to thee must be how Benedick is sick in love with Beatrice.” (pg 41 lll.1 20-21) Beatrice overhears the conversation and she is shocked. Benedick had never told anyone that he loved Beatrice. Ursula and Hero set…