The Themes of Love in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
In this essay, it is necessary to discuss the main themes of love in
the play, 'Much Ado About Nothing.' In the play, one of the main
themes is Love. There can be many facets of love found in the play. It
will be essential to discuss these facets, to find out whether the
theme of love is crucial to the understanding of the play.
There are many romantic relationships, which are important in the
play. The first is the one of, Claudio and Hero. As being two main
characters in the play, they are frequently mentioned. This means that
their love for each other is expressed vividly in many references from
the play. This is how Claudio describes Hero in the earlier stages of
the play,
" She is the sweetest lady I have ever looked upon"
This shows us his love for the beautiful lady he wishes to marry.
Benedick and Beatrice have a hidden love. They show this love through
hate. This may seem ridiculous, but in the early stages of the book,
they seem to express their love through a hate relationship. They are
constantly bickering. Later in the play they express their feelings
for each other, and both characters feel the same way. They both have
an undying love for each other. This love is first found through
letters, which, near the end of the play were passed on to each of
them by friends. This then leads to their marriage!
Two unknown relationships in the play are he ones of Antonia and
Ursula, and, Borachio and Margret. They are not mentioned frequently
in the play, as couples but we know of them due to their cheeky
references.
Family love is another topic that experiences misery and the happiness
of love. The first relationship I am going analyse is the one between
Leonato and his daughter Hero. There father, daughter relationship is
very traditional. They love each other very much, but he wants what is
best for her.
When you walk down the street you notice millions of different kinds of people. Some with a piercing, some with bunch of friends and some with a book in their hands. What is it that makes people so different from one another? Our personality and our character are not born with us, but they are influenced by our actions and the people around us. When we are young we are around our family and they teach us their tradition, which becomes the building blocks for our personality. However, where do traditions come from and what happens when someone fails to follow the traditions? Questions like these have no definite answers but different point of views. Shakespeare for example shares his point of view about traditions in his two famous plays “Romeo and Juliet” and “Much Ado about Nothing.”
reach into the ideas and themes of the play so we will have a good
The main theme of the play is trying to put across a strong view to
characters. But the theme and conflict that is most exemplified in this play would have to be jealousy.
A theme is a central idea that appears throughout a play, the themes also tie events of a play together and give the work meaning and purpose. To explore a play’s central theme, think about the message that the playwright wants to express. What is the significance of the play? Does it explore a moral issue? Can most people identify with it?
Perhaps the most popular theme in the play is that of revenge. R.A. Foakes in “The Play’s Courtly Setting” explains the burden of revenge which the protagonist must carry for the duration of the play:
are two main plots in the play, both based upon the theme of love. The
Many of Shakespeare's plays show a strong theme of love. Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing deal primarily with the issue of true and false love. Romeo and Juliet, tragic play, is about two lovers who struggle, sacrifice, and defy their families and society for the sake of love that changes them completely. Although the end of Romeo and Juliet's story is death both of the lovers, their love turns to be immortal. Much Ado About Nothing, comedy play, is about two lovers who their relationship starts as child like and develops to be true love that motives the lovers to sacrifice in order to keep their love. The two plays deal also with the idea of false love. Romeo, the hero of Romeo and Juliet, thinks that he loves Rosaline, but when he meets Juliet, the heroin of Romeo and Juliet, he falls in love with her, forgetting his love to Rosaline. In Much Ado About Nothing, the relationship between Claudio and Hero's, main characters in the play, is based on wealth and appearance attraction. Conventional love is another kind of that is shown in Romeo and Juliet, where it develops in social situations without any consideration to emotions.
The cycle of love and life continues. After they died, Beatrice, Benedick, Hero and Claudio were again born in the Earth. In their rebirth, Claudio and Benedick were still friends and the Hero and Beatrice were friends too, not cousins. The society where they were born considered it a crime for poor’s to be friends with rich’s. Benedick was a poor orphan, yet he was still friends with Claudio who was from a rich family. Similarly, Beatrice and Hero were friends too, even though Hero was a poor orphan while Beatrice was from rich. Beatrice’s father, Bwo and Claudio’s father, Cwo who both hated poor’s were friends, even though Beatrice and Claudio didn’t knew each other. It was Friday, Bwo and Cwo as usual were having party at Bwo’s mansion.
The theme of the play has to do with the way that life is an endless cycle. You're born, you have some happy times, you have some bad times, and then you die. As the years pass by, everything seems to change. But all in all there is little change. The sun always rises in the early morning, and sets in the evening. The seasons always rotate like they always have. The birds are always chirping. And there is always somebody that has life a little bit worse than your own.
The theme of the play is also change. At the end of the play when
An example of this theme is Mariam’s change of attitude. She was very upset and closed off. When Laila first came Mariam had no interest in being friends. She did what was expected of her and so did Laila. Laila wanted to be friends with her, but it wouldn’t work. Eventually, because of the abuse they both receive from Rasheed, Mariam begins to love Laila. Mariam becomes close with Laila and Laila’s children. This makes the two stronger, because it gives them someone to talk to. They are separated from the world. When they have someone there, the terrible times in the world seem a little less terrible. Another example of this theme is the love between Tariq and Laila. They loved one another for years, but were forced to keep it a secret. Although Laila is married to Rasheed, her heart is for Tariq. All she wants is to find Tariq and marry him. The novel ends with the two married. They are having another child, so they are playing a game to come up with a name for the child. “But the game only involves male names. Because, if it’s a girl, Laila has already named her” (Hosseini, 415). This goes back to her love for Mariam. Love is a theme in this story, because it connects the ones that truly need it. In times of struggle love is still
Shakespeare’s plays are very drastic with how he ties love into them. Shakespeare always adds comedy or tragedy to any romance that might be taking place. For example in Twelfth Night, As You like It and Romeo and Juliet there is romance but he also puts comedy in there so love is not that easy. In the play Othello he makes it into a tragedy which makes the love even harder to take place. Shakespeare has always found a way to make love as complicated as he can which leads me to believe that he feels that you must work for love and it should not be handed to you. Love is already complicated, but when Shakespeare is involved he makes sure at least two things come around that can make it harder for those who are in love to actually stay in love.
Theme; Marriage/Family, Women/Femininity, Identity, Repression, Self-actualization, passion/love, reputation, art/culture, repression, adultery, and society/class are all of the themes.
view is from the writer of the play, 3rd person narration. The theme of this