Audience Reactions and Attitudes to Much Ado About Nothing In "Much Ado About Nothing" Shakespeare captures many of the social standards in Elizabethan society whether they are fair or not. In Act 2 Scene 2 of the play‚ Don John plots to frame Hero and make it look like she has been unfaithful to her fiancée the night before they are due to marry. This then sparks outrage from the male characters‚ which in turn shows a male bias in their society. The way Hero’s father takes a mans word over hers
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. In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Much Ado About Nothing‚ there are many themes 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
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Throughout the play‚ Beatrice is the typical feisty‚ fun-loving woman. However‚ 3;1 reveals a different side to her‚ as we are shown mainly through the eyes of Hero. Defying all sense of friendliness‚ Hero describes Beatrice as ‘self-centred’. This is full of negativity. Although it is for Beatrice’s benefit that Hero and Ursula are tricking the couple‚ the description comes as a surprise contrast to the nature of the play‚ and also the plot of the scene. The play is a comedy‚ and should be full
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PEEL: How Benedick’s view of love has changed between his two soliloquy’s Benedicks view of love at the beginning of Act 2 Scene 3 is a negative‚ spiteful view. Using a series of imagery and comparison‚ Benedick talks about how love has made Claudio weak. ‘I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife‚ and now had he rather hear the tabor and pipe.’ The drum and fife are music of war while the tabor and pipe are music of peace. Musical imagery is used to show a comparison
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hidden in them that one would not see without analyzing the plays. For example‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ Twelfth Night‚ and Much Ado About Nothing all have much in common. Each comedy contains many themes. One similar one‚ however‚ is the theme of love‚ deceit‚ and fickleness. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ the love potion symbolizes peoples ability to be fickle about love. It changes one person’s view of another person. Demetrius hates Helena in the beginning of the play but ends up loving her
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these in many different poetic styles and genres‚ for example in his sonnets. However he is also known for expressing his feelings towards love in over 30 of his plays through the genres of romantic comedy and tragedy. In one of his plays‚ “Much Ado About Nothing”‚ Shakespeare uses many different types of love; through a family‚ a well connected town‚ soldiers returning from war and lovers. Taking one aspect of this‚ the lovers‚ I pick out one male role in particular‚ Benedick. Who appears seamlessly
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male character to misunderstand the female‚ therefore the male characters are often very wrong about the females in the play. The men completely misread the women and in Ophelia and Gertrude’s situation‚ the consequences are very tragic. In order to address this issue‚ it is necessary to explore the characters of Gertrude and Ophelia in Hamlet and the characters of Hero and Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing‚ and in addition‚ how they are treated by other characters. This will then enable me to pass
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Charlotte Bronte’s novel‚ “Jane Eyre” and William Shakespeare’s play‚ “Much Ado about Nothing”‚ both focus on the themes of love; “Jane Eyre” was written in 1851‚ the Victorian era whereas “Much Ado about Nothing” was written in 1599‚ the Elizabethan era. Although there may be over hundreds of years between them‚ both texts exhibit the ways the difficulties of love can be explored. Both texts imply that there will be difficulties as the relationships are established. Charlotte Bronte presents
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Beatrice and Benedick represent the Ideal couple In the play Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare in 1599 shows the concept of love and its different sides (tragedy‚ hope...). The two main couples that are formed throughout the play are Hero and Claudio and Beatrice and Benedick‚ each couple is unique as the four characters are very different and have very different personalities from one another. Beatrice and Benedick represent the ideal couple because they both take their time
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through her life‚ and even on her death-bed she still looks like a child in Nelly’s eyes: ’She drew a sigh‚ and stretched herself‚ like a child reviving‚ and sinking again to sleep and five minutes after I felt one little pulse at her heart‚ and nothing more!’’.Finally it is the ghost of a child that visits Lockwood‚ the newcomer and second narrator in the novel. Until she dies at the age of nineteen‚ Catherine clings in a passionate way to her childhood memories. The most revealing passage is the
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