‘Much Ado About Nothing’ by William Shakespeare contains many aspects that anchor the Elizabethan conventions of comedy‚ but allows us to question whether the ending gratifies the audience and does it actually create a satisfactory dramatic catharsis? Aristotle first discussed the concept of catharsis. He believed that “the poet’s aim is to produce pleasure in the spectator by eliciting from the representation the emotions of pity (for others) and fear (for oneself)”. I believe ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
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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
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these themes can be explored. In the play deception is shown on both good and evil sides‚ the game of love between Beatrice and Benedick and the Don John plot to split up Hero and Claudio. Perception is a theme used in most of Shakespeare’s plays. Perceptive views by the characters help portray the game of love. Hero is perceived as dead which then Claudio is sorry and feels for her. Beatrice and Benedick’s loved is clouded by each other’s perceptions and arguments. Deception is one of the main themes
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Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing are both love stories‚ but their portrayal of love is very different. In Much Ado About Nothing Claudio and Hero fall in love‚ break apart‚ and then fall in love again‚ while at the same time‚ Beatrice and Benedick are being tricked into loving each other. This is very different from Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are in a constant struggle for their love. Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing both contain the elements of;
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A Marxist study of Much Ado About Nothing Using the Marxist approach to one of Shakespeare’s comedies‚ Much Ado About Nothing‚ this essay deals with the unconscious of the text in order to reveal the ideology of the text (as buried in what is not said) so as to discover the hegemony behind the text. The ideology perpetuated in Much Ado About Nothing revolves around‚ centrally‚ ensuring the needs and insecurities of the aristocratic – the need for a patriarchal power‚ the need to reject‚ stigmatize
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Shakespearean plays have often stressed the importance of relationships between men and women; most of Shakespeare’s plays‚ tragedies and comedies‚ involve romance between males and females‚ but the relationships that are far more poignant and effective in the play seem to be the relationships between the plays’ same sex characters. Examples of important same- and opposite-sex relationships appear in both of Shakespeare’s comedic plays Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. Twelfth Night and
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“Much Ado” seems to be a pretty general romantic comedy plot for a film. The only thing that was pretty confusing was the roles of Benedick with his men and Leonato. Whedon fails to really inform us what their significance are in the play. In the play Benedick is a soldier who is coming from battle to stay at the estate of Leonato. In this film‚ it seems that Benedick and Claudio might be working for the FBI or maybe undercover cops and that Leonato is some political figure but that was kind of unclear
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of deception re occurring in various forms. On one hand deception is used throughout Much Ado About Nothing in a malicious manner‚ however on the on the hand it can be portrayed in a benevolent and beneficial manner such as the fooling of Beatrice and Benedick and deceiving them into proclaiming their love for each other. The use of both forms of deception often makes it difficult to distinguish between the two‚ such as when Claudio announces his desire to woo Hero‚ however Don Pedro takes it upon
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that bring serenity to the chaos that encompasses most of the play. 	The first example of deception we see is with the characters of Beatrice and Benedick. These two characters provide the humor throughout Shakespeare’s comedy; their repartees and soliloquies tend to leave the reader smiling and anxious for more dialogue between them. Beatrice and Benedick have had a relationship prior to their battles of wit to which she alludes to in Act 2: "Marry‚ once before he won it for me with false
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plot twists‚ mistaken identity‚ and clever word play. The Play Much Ado About nothing is a compilation of all 4 components. The clever word play between the main characters is the main source of the humor. Especially the verbal duals between Benedick and Beatrice‚ who were once enemies to each other but then turned into lovers. The play takes unforeseen turn when Don John plots to create mischief and ruin the impending marriage between Claudio and Hero. Instead of doing it himself‚ Don John entrusted
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