William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
The play 'Much Ado about Nothing' by William Shakespeare is full of
contrasts; two of the most prominent of these contrasts is how love
changes Beatrice in act 3 scene 1, and how love changes Benedick in
act 2 scene 3.
In this essay I will analyse and compare these changes and the
contrasts they bring about
Beatrice
Before act 3 scene 1 Beatrice often shows disdain at the idea of love
and almost goes so far as to rally against love as she says in act 2
scene 1 'If he send me no husband for which is a blessing…Lord I could
not endure a husband' here she and leonato have just been talking
about god sending her a husband and how glad she is that he hasn't,
she even refers to it as a 'blessing'; Furthermore she emphasises this
point by talking about how a she 'would rather lie in the woollen'
than have a husband with a beard on his face, but a man without a
beard is 'no more than a youth' so she may as well have no man, or as
she puts it 'he that is more than a youth, is not for me, and he that
is less than a man, I am not for him;'
On the other hand, at the end of act 3 scene 1(the scene in which she
is tricked to believe that Benedick loves her) she takes the complete
opposite approach to love, in that she will requite Benedick's love
for her and even talks about marrying him -'my kindness shall incite
thee to bind out loves in a holy band' this means she will, instead of
constantly ridiculing and mocking Benedick as she normally does (after
Benedick says he loves nobody she says 'a dear happiness to women')
she will instead be kind to him, and that this will inspire him to
propose to her(the holy band meaning a wedding ring).
'What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
Stand I condemned for pride and scorn so much?
The Lady’s value is dwindling. It could be her self-worth, it could be that she is just growing old;
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.
this scene and the end of Act 1 Scene 4. The last scene ended on a
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themes is Love. There can be many facets of love found in the play. It
Act 1 scene 5 we see her praying to evil spirits in her soliloquy for
“If half thy outward graces had been placed upon thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart! But fair the well, most foul, most fair. Farewell, the pure and impiety and impious purity. For the I’ll lock up all the gates of love and on my eyelids shall conjecture heading to turn ...