Much Ado About Nothing: Portrayal of Marriage
How is the idea of marriage portrayed
In these two scenes?
In the two scenes of ‘Much ado about nothing’, that I am going to go in more detail of, have two different opinions that the characters portray about marriage. There are four main characters who are the couples of the play, they are ‘Hero & Claudio’ and ‘Beatrice & Benedick’, both couples have opposite feelings towards marriage in scene one and may still think the same way about love and marriage in scene two but Shakespeare makes their characters portray it in different ways. Each scene gives the characters two identities, because in scene one Claudio and hero are made out to be the perfect, destined couple and in scene two their relationship is broken apart. Shakespeare portrays each couple in the two scenes to be imaged out as one character in the first scene, and then become complete opposite to their first character when it comes to the second scene. This play was set in the Elizabethan times, so women would want to marry well and only have a relationship with that one man that they would marry. The men at that period of time would have to have a high status to be married.
Firstly, in scene one, Shakespeare portrays a more idealistic view of marriage with both couples. Hero and Claudio’s relationship is made out to be more of an arranged marriage, which shows the marriage customs. Even though hero and Claudio’s relationship may be made out to be very fairytale like and not so real, however their relationship is arranged which is more realistic. Because ‘Signor Leonarto’; hero’s father is asked about the marriage by ‘Don Pedro’; the prince, showing that Claudio did not personally ask for hero’s hand in marriage, this tells us a little bit more of what their character is like. In scene one both Claudio and hero completely agree with the idea of marriage, Shakespeare portrays them both as a match made in heaven because both of them fell in the love at first sight, which shows how gullible they both
In these two scenes?
In the two scenes of ‘Much ado about nothing’, that I am going to go in more detail of, have two different opinions that the characters portray about marriage. There are four main characters who are the couples of the play, they are ‘Hero & Claudio’ and ‘Beatrice & Benedick’, both couples have opposite feelings towards marriage in scene one and may still think the same way about love and marriage in scene two but Shakespeare makes their characters portray it in different ways. Each scene gives the characters two identities, because in scene one Claudio and hero are made out to be the perfect, destined couple and in scene two their relationship is broken apart. Shakespeare portrays each couple in the two scenes to be imaged out as one character in the first scene, and then become complete opposite to their first character when it comes to the second scene. This play was set in the Elizabethan times, so women would want to marry well and only have a relationship with that one man that they would marry. The men at that period of time would have to have a high status to be married.
Firstly, in scene one, Shakespeare portrays a more idealistic view of marriage with both couples. Hero and Claudio’s relationship is made out to be more of an arranged marriage, which shows the marriage customs. Even though hero and Claudio’s relationship may be made out to be very fairytale like and not so real, however their relationship is arranged which is more realistic. Because ‘Signor Leonarto’; hero’s father is asked about the marriage by ‘Don Pedro’; the prince, showing that Claudio did not personally ask for hero’s hand in marriage, this tells us a little bit more of what their character is like. In scene one both Claudio and hero completely agree with the idea of marriage, Shakespeare portrays them both as a match made in heaven because both of them fell in the love at first sight, which shows how gullible they both