Trickery And Deceit In William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

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The book Much Ado About Nothing is a book written by William Shakespeare in . I personally believe this book is one of Shakespeare’s best work. This book has it all, romance mischief, and comedy. Shakespeare’s intention of this book was to make it humorous for his readers and audience. If you haven’t read this book, this book’s central theme is trickery and deceit. What this means is by tricking and deceiving people is how the characters got what they wanted, even if it was a dirty way of doing it. This book is a unique book because trickery and deceit leads to many unexpected surprises such as romance. Deception is used in this story in many ways. It’s used to deceive others to hate, to hurt, and to fall in love.
This comedy starts off with a young lady named Hero who is ready to be married by her father Leonato (the governor of Messina). Hero has a young cousin who has also been raised by her uncle Leonato. These young ladies are so much alike yet completely different. Hero is the sweet, naive type of girl who believes in love, romance and dreams of one day being married. Beatrice is the complete opposite, she doesn’t believe in marriage or fairytailes and does not wish to ever be married. …show more content…

He observes her and notices her great qualities. He likes the fact that she is a good, honest girl and decides he wants to marry her. He shares his thoughts with Benedick, even though Benedick might not the best person to share relationship thoughts to. Benedick is a lord who enjoys his life being a bachelor and swears to never fall in love or rather to be made into an oyster. Claudio ignores Benedick’s insensitive comments and follows his heart and asks for Don Pedro’s (the prince of Messina) help to ask for young Hero’s hand in marriage and

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