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    Beatrice Vs Benedick

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    The Two Opposites “Peace! I will stop your mouth. In the book Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Beatrice and Benedick are a pair who share both similar and different traits. We also see that both, will not confess their love for one another. Most of the book revolves around these two characters who end up falling in love in the end, both go through conflict but resolving it. Benedick and Beatrice are dissimilar for Beatrice is reasonable and Benedick is irrational, they are so consubstantial

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    came to being compared to the male gender. The man and the husband did everything they could to be able to maintain rule of the home and keep their foot down in the house. There are some women that did rebel and those are the ones we ended up reading about in Shakespeare’s

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    Eman Quisay Is Shakespeare’s ‘’Much Ado about Nothing’’ too misogynistic to be a modern day rom-com? Much Ado is a play about love and comedy in a semi courtly setting in the small town of Messina, Italy. In comes the soldiers and everyone rejoices the women dress in their fine clothes in hopes of looking presentable. After all the excitement calmed a little and the women are dressed, they go and meet the soldiers as a household. Leonato whom is the father of Hero and uncle of Beatrice goes

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    True love is not common but when it is found it is a wonderful thing and nothing should come between it. “The course of true love never did run smooth” explains how love is never without difficulties. In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare the quote “The course of true love never did run smooth” describes the relationships between the two couples, Benedick and Beatrice and Claudio and Hero. Both people and personalities almost come between the couples but love prevailed. For

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    his play, Much Ado About Nothing. The play is of one unlikely love story and another that has an unlikely ending. One main character foil shown in the play would be Claudio and Benedick. This character foil illuminates the story because even though they both change their view on love, they never see eye to eye. Benedick brings out Claudio’s at first lovingness to someone who gives up on love and Benedick from a shallow man that doesn’t care about woman to a caring person who cares about others. In

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    foil character in fictional literature is where one character’s qualities contrast another character’s qualities to highlight their strengths or weaknesses. Foil characters are very common in many of William Shakespeare's plays, especially Much Ado About Nothing. A few foils in the story are Hero and Beatrice and Don Pedro and Don John. While these foil relationships are important, many would argue that Hero and Claudio’s relationship and Beatrice and Benedick’s relationship is the most necessary

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    Don Pedro Foils

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    The Dons’ Foil The depth of characters in a story build off of each other as they highlight each other character’s strengths. This is called character foils. In William Shakespeare’s book “Much Ado About Nothing” the characters Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick, and Don John come back from the war to return to Messina, Italy. Claudio falls in love with Hero, and with the help of Don Pedro, Claudio is able to marry Hero. However, Don Pedro’s brother, Don John, deceives everyone with his mischievous lies

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    we are setting this play in the streets of the city of Adelaide, the play will be shown on a stage in the park surrounded by beautiful trees. Positioning the play in a park setting in the evening within the cityscape is a perfect backdrop for this much-loved Shakespearian play. A lot of the action takes place in echoing high-end interiors, perfect for a story where everyone is constantly eavesdropping on everyone else When I was reading Shakespeare 's original play in high school I didn 't really

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    Discuss the differences between Beatrice and Hero in the early scenes of the play Shakespeare's play ‘Much Ado about Nothing' has two main female characters, Beatrice and Hero, who are cousins. Both appear to be completely different in the beginning of the play but, as things progress and their characters develop, there are also some very obvious similarities between them. Hero and Beatrice have a very close relationship; they are best friends. Leonato is Hero's father but Beatrice has no parents

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    PLK CKY 2015-16 Year 8 English: Persuasive Writing Why should this year’s annual play be Much Ado about Nothing? By Agna Chan (2) 8F Much Ado about Nothing is one of the world’s famous comedic play written by the ever so influential William Shakespeare. This play combines elements such as vigorous merriment with a lot of serious meditations on honour, shame and court politics. This should be our annual play as it not only is a very popular play, but it will also definitely educate the audience

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