Year 11 English Literature- Much Ado About Nothing Essay Question Much Ado About Nothing uses the stage to create a little world in order to examine the society at large. Discuss how the world created in the text allows the dominant ideologies of the time to be explored. - Examine and make notes on Much Ado About Nothing focusing on a selection of both male and female character. - Attention should be paid to the manner in which the language and actions of the characters reflect the dominant
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Much ado about nothing is a comedic play written by William Shakespeare‚ Shakespearean comedy usually results in a happy ending were a unmarried couple get married‚ many of Shakespeare’s plays demonstrate this. The play is about all relationships between the sexes‚ there is two story lines that are based around two very different couples. One of those couples is a typical traditional couple where they almost fall in love at first sight and are ideally suited to each other. However the man becomes
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Much Ado About Nothing: An Overview It is a beautiful spring afternoon. The air is full of the radiance of freshly bloomed daisies and the energizing chill of the periodic spring breeze. Puffy large cumulus clouds fill the azure sky with gray thunderheads looming off in the distance. Looking down from the clouds‚ one can see a gathering of finely dressed people. Birds flying overhead hear the murmurs of the crowd gathered for a wedding of gentry. Shakespeare could never have planned the first
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Much Ado About Something “And when I lived‚ I was your other wife‚ And when you loved‚ you were my other husband.” (Shakespeare 232) Claudio asked Hero’s hand in marriage. Don John did a corrupt plan to ruin poor Hero’s image and to make Claudio unhappy. At the wedding Claudio shamed her and she perceived to die. At the end of the book it was revealed to Claudio that his Hero was alive‚ and they got fully married. In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare‚ Hero serves as the foil of Claudio
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disagrees with the concept of marriage‚ in which two people take commitment to each other by sharing a serious relationship. Using two different soliloquies‚ Shakespeare portrays Benedick’s attitude about love before and after the conversation among Claudio‚ Don Pedro and Leonato. In Much Ado About Nothing‚ William Shakespeare uses repetition and diction to show how Benedick’s feelings toward love change from dislike to desire. Benedick’s first monologue is based on repeated words and phrases. His
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There are a lot of ways to show love but in the movie “ Much Ado About Nothing” one idea about love that was dramatized was jealousy. The night Claudio came to Hero’s home‚ they had a party and the Prince tried to woo Hero for himself‚ but Hero didn’t want the Prince. Claudio got jealous just seeing the Prince try to woo Hero. Then when Claudio and Hero were supposed to get married‚ it was stopped by Don John‚ the night before Claudio and Hero were to get married‚ Don John tricked Claudio into thinking
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Much Ado About Nothing—Romantic Comedy * Much Ado about Nothing * Love and War; Love as War—starts with soldiers coming back from war and wanting love; love becomes a battlefield * Young Lovers: Claudio and Hero * “Not(h)ing” Messina: Confusions of Appearance and Reality * Love and War; Love as War * 1.1: World waiting for the return of youth and love * Learn of soldiers even before they enter scene: * Youthful Claudio‚ ll.12-16 * Benedick (older man) introduced
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In the text‚ Much Ado About Nothing‚ many of the characters show comedic and tragic aspects. Even though most characters in the text show different aspects and traits‚ Benedick shows the most tragic and comedic aspects. An example of Benedick showing comedic aspects would be in act 2 scene 1; Benedick disguises himself with a mask along with changing his voice. Benedick disguises his voice with an accent‚ which brings humor to the reader‚ and or audience (if watching the movie). Another example‚
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Much Ado About Nothing has many tropes that are specific to the romantic comedy. The first is “Belligerent Sexual Tension” (Romantic Comedy)‚ which means that the characters have obvious attraction between them despite the fact that they fight like cats and dogs. This goes into the other trope for their relationship titled Slap‚ Slap‚ Kiss (Romantic Comedy). While they don’t physically attack each other‚ they verbally joust at any point when they’re together. Leonato early on makes note of this
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Questions 1: Of the plays we have read this term‚ Much Ado About Nothing and Richard III had interesting plot points outside of their respective genres. The first play is categorized as a comedy because of nature of the plot and the happy conclusion. In the play‚ however‚ there is a secret plot to ruin Claudio and Hero’s love that could have turned into the ending of Othello but instead turns out for the better. The latter is considered a history simply because it pertains to a former English king’s
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