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    Don Pedro‚ Leonato‚ Claudio‚ and Hero all acted in basically the most amatonormative way possible by trying to set Beatrice and Benedick up with each other. They should be ashamed of themselves. I’ll have more to say on that later. Benedick said about the possibility that he might fall in love‚ “I cannot tell; I think not” (2.3)—which is a common reason for labeling as gray-aro. In the same speech‚ he said‚ “[T]ill all graces be in one woman‚ one woman shall not come in my grace‚” which made me

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    1) 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

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    companion he will lose through marriage. Throughout the early scenes‚ his exchanges with Beatrice create a feeling that he "doth protest too much" — that is‚ he really harbors at least affection for Beatrice. It takes the "noting" scene near the arbor‚ arranged by Don Pedro‚ for Benedick to admit he may indeed be able to love Beatrice since she loves him so much. His subsequent meetings with Beatrice and with his friends show a marked change in his attitudes and demeanor from the early scenes. He

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    unlikely if he really did love Hero. Burlesque: Over the top actions or thought/speech pattern. EG: The way Benedick is so against marriage he lists ridiculous and outrageous situations he’d rather be in than in marriage. The way he hates women so much he would rather pull his eyeball out with a pen (loose ’translation’). Unconventional Characters: Characters unfit for their role - their gender‚ class‚ job etc. EG: Beatrice is unfit for her role as both a woman in this era and for a ’lady’ of

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    language as a very evident clue into letting you know how important a character is in a story. In other plays such as Romeo and Juliet‚ Main characters speak in perfect rhythm and rhyme‚ while servants are left in choppy word fragments. We don’t know much about her mother other than a blunt joke at the beginning of the play Don Pedro said “You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this is your daughter.” As Leonato responds with “Her mother hath many times told me so.”Hero is a companion to each character

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    Othello & Much Ado About Nothing Othello and Much Ado About Nothing are both plays by Shakespeare that portion out the theme of betrayal‚ accusation‚ dishonesty and many other similarities. Even though Much Ado About Nothing is less tragic and more comedy than Othello‚ most of the characters share characteristics that you can point out easily. Both main characters in the plays are greatly connected with the events that are occurring. Most of them are put in the same position but some respond differently

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    society. In his play Much Ado About Nothing‚ which is still being performed today‚ he says many statements about society in a whole. One of those being about gender roles of old society. Although some will say that Shakespeare’s gender roles hold up to today’s society‚ they would be wrong because Beatrice being frowned upon ‚ the way women are viewed as things in the play and role of honor. Beatrice is one of the most round characters in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. She is the opposite

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    The play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare addresses the feminist and patriarchal values of Elizabethan society in the 1600s. Using the contrast between two females characters: Hero and Beatrice‚ he shows the relationship between how outspoken females are and their power status within a patriarchal society. Shakespeare’s agenda for this play is to spread a pro-feminist movement in a society that doesn’t accept women as equal to men. Hero‚ who rarely speaks during this play‚ is considered

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    The character of Beatrice is portrayed as interesting because her views and attitudes could be seen as masculine and controversial. An example of this is when her exchange with Benedick after Claudio jilts Hero. Beatrice says that Claudio has ‘slandered‚ scorned‚ dishonoured’ her cousin. The use of the triadic structure highlights Beatrice’s abhorrence for Claudio‚ because these harsh verbs indicate that Claudio’s actions have brought shame and disgrace to Hero and her family. These are the sort

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    For this assessment‚ you will write a comparison piece. Compare one of the common themes below that can be traced through The Odyssey and one other work read in this path: “To His Coy Mistress” or Much Ado About Nothing. If you would like to include all three works in your comparison‚ you may do so. Be sure that your response includes the following: a minimum of five paragraphs a direct comparison between the two works at least two examples from the pieces as support using correct MLA format

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