Trickery In Much Ado About Nothing Research Paper

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Trickery is used in many ways for many reasons and purposes. But in the book “Much Ado About Nothing” trickery is used to make people fall in love, make people believe what's not true, and break people up. In my opinion the way trickery is used in this book is smart because it's used to make two people fall in love and one couple break up. It is a clever way to make people fall for eachother. There's so many trickery used in this book for good and for bad and all the trickery used is very smart and sneaky. Deception is used to make people fall in love because they trick them into overhear a conversation about one another. In the book there's plenty of trickery and deception used to trick people into believing what they want them to believe. In the book Prince and Claudio plan on wooing hero so that she can marry Claudio. In this part of the book Prince and Claudio talk about Hero, the plan is that Prince will woo her in the name of Claudio by talking to her without her knowing its prince. Prince exclaims “speak low if you speak of love” (Act II, Scene I, 97). In …show more content…

In the book Don John plans on sabotaging the wedding of Claudio and Hero by making Claudio believe that she is having affairs with Borachio. In the book Don John goes and shows Prince and Claudio what it seems that is Hero having sex with Borachio. But it wasn't Hero it was Margaret (Hero's cousin) having affairs with Borachio, but Borachio made it seem like it was Hero just so Claudio will get mad and ruin the wedding. On the wedding day that's when Claudio refuses to marry Hero because of what he saw. Claudio exclaims “Not to be married, Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton”(Act IV, Scene I, 44-45). In my opinion this quote means that Claudio doesn't really want to marry a person who is having affairs with other men, he doesn't want to get his heart broken in my

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