Honor In 'Much Ado About Nothing And The Outsider'

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Throughout the three texts we read, all three, different, authors developed a theme in their texts as “honor”. In Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio, a soldier, and Hero, a madden, quickly fall in love with each other; Don John, the “villain”, deceives everyone into thinking that Hero cheated on Claudio. In order for the city of Messina to stop talking about Hero’s reputation, Hero fakes her death. Claudio realizes Don John lied; and Hero and Claudio marry. The novel The Outsiders, is based on two gangs (the Greasers and the Socs), who have a rivalry. Bob, a Soc, tries to hurt Pony, a greaser. Johnny, a graser, sees Pony getting hurt and kills Bob. The two greasers have to run away so they don’t get caught by the cops. On the other hand, they …show more content…

Hinton, Tennyson, and Shakespeare, use honor in their texts, they also include Loyalty. Loyalty and Honor are different things; honor is a high respect of something and loyalty is a strong feeling of support. During The Outsiders, Pony is loyal to Johnny, because Pony went to the church with Johnny. Also during the rumble in the novel, Dally fights for Johnny. During the rumble Dally dies, when Dally pases away, he basically died for Johhny. Tennyson, author of “Charge of the Light Brigade”, shows loyalty in many ways during this poem. The captain of the british soldiers knew he messed up with his order. Since the british only had swords and horses, and the russians had bombs, the british knew they were going to lose. In stanza 2, it says “theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do or die”. That saying means the soldiers knew they were going to die, but they were going to die of courage, and be known as soldiers who died for their country/being loyal to their country. During Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare includes a lot of loyalty. For example, Beatrice, Hero’s cousin, stayed loyal to Hero, because they are family. During Act 4 scene 1 everyone thought Hero was a stale because Claudio said she cheated on him, but Beatrice believed Hero, when she said she was not a cheater. Beatrice stayed by her side the whole time, and tried her best to prove Hero was not a stale. Another example of loyalty would also be when Beatrice tells …show more content…

Hinton use characters and tone to develop the theme, they also use plot. During The Outsiders in chapters 5-6 the church burns down. Since Pony runs in the church to save the kids, Johnny also follows because he doesn’t want Pony to get hurt. Johnny honors the act that Pony ran in to save children he didn’t even know. Also in chapter 9 Johnny dies. Instead of Johnny being known as a delinquent who killed a soc, he was known as a hero, because he saved kids from the church.This book, shows honor though the plot and the characters. Much Ado About Nothing has a very complex plot. Since it is a play plot does have an important role, but tone of voice and characterization has the most impact on the play. During Much Ado About Nothing, Hero is blamed for cheating on Claudio, which was false allegations. Hero has to follow the plan, of the Friar, that she is “dead” (not actually, it would be fake). When Hero “dies” Claudio realizes Hero was falsely accused, causing Hero to become “back alive”, which lets Hero and Claudio marry. The plot of Much Ado About Nothing further developed the theme of honor. Since it is a play the plot doesn’t develop the theme by itself. The tone of voice and the characters develop the theme, of honor, way more than the plot. “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, brings in the theme of honor through the plot because during the conflict in stanza 2, the british soldiers knew they were going to lose but they still

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