Luke Rogan A-3 English Noll 11/12/14 The play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, explores many different types of love. The two types of love are exhibited by the couples: Beatrice and Benedick, and Hero and Claudio. These two couples are similar in ways that they are both relatively young, noble, and wealthy couples, and they both were put into their relationships by other people. They differ however, in the ways that they interact and express their love for each other, their displays of loyalty towards one another, and the depth and authenticity of their love. Firstly the couple’s similarity that they are young and wealthy can be conveyed throughout the entire play as it is shown through many aspects such as the clothes they …show more content…
wear, the buildings that they live in, or even the nature of their speech. It is apparent that the wealthy and noble Don Pedro speaks differently from the poor and uneducated Dogberry in act 5. Beyond social status basic characteristics a deeper similarity that the couples share is how both couples were put into their relationships with the help of others.
In Beatrice and Benedick’s case, Beatrice and Benedick had both formerly stated how they would never settle down and fall in love. Due to their pride, once they had fallen in love, they would not be have been able to confess their love to one another without the help of others. Benedick proclaims, “ that one man Is a fool, when he dedicates his behaviours to love, will after he hath laughed at such shallow follies in others become the argument of his own scorn, by falling in love.” (2.3.7-10) Later on, Hero states that Beatrice would willingly never find a good man, explaining how she would “swear a fair faced gentleman to be her sister.” Beatrice later confesses her pride in realization as she reflects, ”stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much?”(3.1.108) Beatrice tricked into loving Benedick in act 3 by Margaret, Hero and Ursula, and Benedick is tricked into loving Beatrice by Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato. Hero and Claudio are also put into their relationships by other people as due to the fact that Claudio is too timid, he has Don Pedro mask himself at the masquerade and woo Hero in the place of
Claudio. However, these couples differ in various ways as well. One of their main differences is in how they interact and express their loves for each other. Beatrice and Benedick express their love for the most part by teasing and taunting one another. From the very first scene of the play, Beatrice taunts Benedick as she jests, “I pray you, is signor Mountanto returned from the wars or no?” As she is teasing Benedick, but at the same time she is genuinely interested in how he is, and it is indicated due to the fact that she would not have asked if she were not curious. Later in the play, there is a similar instance in which Beatrice attempts to invite Benedick to dinner, and Benedick looks for a sign of her love as he was told that she did love him. He asks if she “take pleasure then in the message.” Beatrice goes on to joke about how she enjoys it as much as you enjoy taking a “knife’s point,” but in reality if she truly did not want Benedick to come she would not have invited him in the first place. On the other hand, Hero and Claudio express their love in a more traditional sense as they court each other at the masquerade and express their love at their wedding. Another difference that the couples have is the levels of their loyalty. Beatrice and Benedick have loyalty in eachother, but Benedick is also loyal to Claudio, as in act four, even when he is deeply in love with Beatrice and asks for a way to convey his love for her and when Beatrice responds by asking him to kill Claudio, Benedick refuses. Claudio and Hero however, are not loyal to eachother as when Don John states to in act three that Hero is unfaithful, he without a moments notice believes him, and later goes on to berate and humiliate Hero on the day of their wedding. The final major contrast between the two pairs is with the depth and authenticity of their love. Beatrice and Benedick have a more deep-seated affection than Hero and Claudio. Beatrice and Benedick joke for the most part, but can also have thoughtful and affectionate conversation. In Act five scene two in Leonato’s garden, Benedick writes a love song for Beatrice and they converse about their fondness for eachother. Hero and Claudio on the other hand have a superficial and shallow love for one another, as just from the moment Claudio sees Hero in act one scene one, he tells Benedick that he intends on marrying her. The couple of Hero and Claudio also rarely converse throughout the entire play. Shakespeare looks into the many types of love in his plays, and in this play he explores two different main types through the relationships. Thus the couples of Hero and Claudio and Beatrice and Benedick can be compared by their age and nobility and how they were put into relationships with eachother, but differ in the ways that they convey their love, display their loyalty, and the depth of their relation.
In the play, “Much Ado About Nothing”, love and romance play a major role throughout the play.It takes place in Messina. The play has a lot of characters that fall in love with each other. Besides romance and love there is a lot of jealousy in the play. Characters will have up and down moments throughout the book, but they will all get together at the end of the story. Many scenes in the play will be about characters making other characters fall in love by telling one another that one likes the other. The play is all about characters getting together and being happy.
In today's society, true love can be described as someone buying a sparkly present for the significant other, celebrating their special anniversary with a beautiful getaway from their hectic life, or even risking anything in the world for that one person. These are all real examples of true love but these are also the things that Claudio didn’t do to show his affection and love towards Hero. Instead, he chose to humiliate her on their wedding day, he didn’t trust her to stay faithful until marriage, and even “killed” her. In the play, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, the main characters, Hero, and Claudio, are not truly in love and their actions display that.
Entry 1: Act I. Don Pedro and his men return from the war and visit the house of Leonato and his brother, Antonio. This sudden meeting reunites Beatrice with her archrival, Benedick, and it is here that Claudio and Hero fall in love. React: Is it a In Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, there are the usual characters that show up in most of Shakespeare’s pieces.
Throughout Act one and two, Benedick repeatedly says that he will never love a woman or get married. At some stage in the duration of the play his mindset changes. In the end he is head over heels in love for Beatrice whom he once quarreled with habitually. The turnabout in his behavior was brought about by the deceiving Claudio and Pedro who indirectly told Benedick that Beatrice loved him.
Shakespeare’s introduction of the other couple in question is in stark contrast to the way in which Beatrice and Benedick were introduced. Claudio and Hero are amorously receptive to one and other from the very start. Upon laying eyes on Hero, Claudio remarks of her to Benedict “is she not a modest young lady?” (1.1.125). Clearly, by having Claudio express his fondness of Hero to Benedick, the playwright directly compares the older and more cynical to the more young and naive, allowing the reader to see the contrasting personas of the two men. This is reinforced by Benedick, who after finishing listening to Claudio’s rhetoric on the charms of the young Hero (“in m...
Exploring Love in Much Ado About Nothing In Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare depicts different kinds of loving relationships - romantic love, family support and loyal friendship - and shows how various characters react to love and marriage. By exploring the effects of this powerful emotion Shakespeare highlights its universal relevance, a relevance that transcends time. The main plot of Much Ado About Nothing is that of the relationship between Claudio and Hero. Their story is a melodramatic saga concerning the realities of relationships based on love at first sight.
We can tell from the start of the play that Beatrice and Benedick are perfect for each other, simply by their matching characteristics and a similar level of intellect, which is a perfect basis for marriage. They are both shrewd evident through their skill of twisting other people’s words, loyal shown through Benedick not killing Claudio and Beatrice never doubting Hero,...
Whedon's production of Much Ado About Nothing is a modern, black and white retelling of the famous Shakespeare play of the same name which tells the story of love and deceit between two couples: Hero and Claudio, and Beatrice and Benedick. While Hero and Claudio court and prepare to marry each other, Beatrice and Benedick steal the show away with their wit, humor, and constant bickering. Though they both insist that they hate each other, the flashback presented at the start of the film suggests that there is far more to the story than meets the eye. While the style of the film certainly enhances the story being told, making it a timeless classic entangled with modern society, it is the ensemble cast that work both individually and as a unit which make the film a true masterpiece, as well as the genius idea of a change in scenery that propels a sense of realism not often found in your average Shakespeare adaptation.
True love is a bond shared by few and dreamed of by everyone. The appearance of a relationship may not accurately depict the true reality of the situation. The bond between Claudio and Hero appears far stronger than that of Beatrice and Benedict, yet events of the play provide evidence for the converse. In Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing, the masked emotions of two couples are evoked through subterfuge.
In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedict rant about marriage for most of the beginning of the play, while Claudio raves about how wonderful it will be being married to Hero. Yet in the end, Claudio exchanges his marriage to Hero for an opportunity to bash her in public, while Beatrice and Benedick marry despite that they were mortal enemies for most of the first three acts. How did the situation swing around to this degree? Beatrice and Benedick had been using the most extreme metaphors to demonstrate their scorn of each other and of marriage, and Claudio had been doing the same to demonstrate his love of Hero. Not only did none of these three characters mean what they were saying, but meant the reverse, and the people that plotted to bring them together or pull them apart plotted because they understood on some level what each really wanted.
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice are both plays that follow the journey of four lovers: Beatrice & Benedict, and Elizabeth and Darcy. These couple all go through trials and tribulations within their relationships. All characters must overcome their prideful ways to be with one another. William Shakespeare and Jane Austin both show in Much Ado About Nothing and Pride and Prejudice that love, eventually, overcomes pride.
Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare, is a comical story of misunderstandings and funny feuds, but also contains heartfelt love stories, one in which contains an horrible miscalculation that leads to heartbreak and "death." That story is one of Hero, the governors daughter, who falls in love with Count Claudio, a lord from Florence. Claudio undoubtably feels the same and they quickly become engaged to be married the next week. All is well until the evil Don John devises a plan to ruin their upcoming marriage and pulls a stunt to trick Claudio into believing that Hero has been disloyal. At their wedding ceremony the following day, Claudio publicly shames Hero by revealing that she has lost her honor to another man, turning everyone against her. Hero, of course, is innocent, but only a few believe this. This scenario is, of course, horrible to witness as a reader and viewer who knows the truth, and drags on for far too long. Hero's situation is one where no matter how much she protests and demands that she has been wrongfully accused, she is not listened to. Once it has been suggested, by the simple power of words, not even physical proof that can be shown to anyone questioning it, that Hero has lost her virginity, all hope is lost for Hero. Her pleas won't be heard, no one will believe her word over a mans, and she has lost everything in one moment, a blink of eye and the weddings off and she is shamed by everyone she knows.
...he other hand, Beatrice and Benedick are comedy-makers and Beatrice is not ruled by her father as Hero clearly is. It does take Don Pedro’s benevolent plot to bring Benedick and Beatrice together, however. A modern audience would prefer Beatrice to Hero as she is her own self and admirable. The relationships also differ because Benedick and Beatrice’s relationship slowly grew whereas Claudio and Hero’s relationship was love at first sight. Perhaps it was a little hasty as we see in Act 4 how their love turns sour.
Love in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Shakespeare is well known for presenting the full repertoire of human emotions, and love is no exception. Much Ado About Nothing is unquestionably a play about love. Shakespeare provides the audience with a whole gamut of lovers from the banal Claudio and Hero to the rebellious Beatrice and Benedick. It is this range which allows Shakespeare to critique the conventions and perceptions within his renaissance society This variance in love and lovers also serves to inform the audience of the many different faces of love, and to further the plot, for example, it is Margaret's brand of free love. causes the turning point in the play.
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.