In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, love is an important and consistent topic. The topic of love advances throughout the play as the central characters go through the stages of their relationships. Love is important because, from a very young age people experience love as a natural part of life. People want to know what love is. How do I get it, and what does it feel like? It is something one anticipates and waits for, much like the experience of a first kiss or saying the words “I love you” for the first time. Love is made up of many different emotions: joy, pain, compassion, understanding, longing, and tears. All of these emotions are felt throughout the play by the main relationships: Hero and Claudio and Beatrice and Benedick. Through the ups and downs in relationships between Hero, Claudio, Benedick and Beatrice, Shakespeare uses the idea of love to show us how important trust and loyalty are in any relationship by creating distrust.
An important part of love is trust because it is the foundation. Trust is earned by demonstrating loyalty over time. Having it makes you feel secure in a relationship and provides the opportunity for a person to become vulnerable and share emotions, feelings, and memories without being taken advantage of. The visual map that’s been presented illustrates how hurt Claudio is when he finds out that Hero is not trustworthy. Claudio shows his hurt and longing for Hero in the tears of his eyes, while his anger is shown by the act him turning his back to her. When Hero passes out she is showing her sadness and confusion from all of the distrust and pressure that is being received from her father, Leonato, and her groom. With her arms reaching out, Hero conveys that s...
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...ally. Love brings out intense emotions and situations that reveal a lot about a character and their demeanor. Shakespeare uses love to show that it does not mean you have to change your personality, however, it does mean accepting another person for who they are regardless of the thoughts and opinions of others. Love is so vital to the play because it shows us that people need trust, loyalty, commitment, chemistry, forgiveness, patience, kindness, and honesty to have proper love. Once a person has these things he or she just needs to work to find love and work even harder to keep it.
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When love is in attendance it brings care, faith, affection and intimacy. This is proved true in the spectacular play A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare. This play displays the facts about lust, hatred, jealousy and their roles in something powerfully desirable. It is entitled love. Love is present everywhere, in every form, in every condition and even when one least expects it.
Much Ado About Nothing. The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. 366-398.
Love, what a small word for being one of the most powerful and complicated emotion someone can receive. Love grants people an experience of other emotions such as, sadness, happiness, jealousy, hatred and many more. It is because of those characteristics that love creates that make it so difficult to define the emotion in a few words. In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, defy their parents in hopes of being able to be together and live a happy life. The characters in “Romeo and Juliet” show the characteristics of love through their words and actions throughout the play. The attributes the characters illustrate throughout the play are rage, loyalty, and sorrow.
...ut Nothing is an extremely fast paced and witty play, Shakespeare very much has love as his central theme. There are two very different, yet equally compelling relationships that are explored in depth. They run through the play concurrently, allowing the reader to compare and contrast the different facets and complexities between the two. The playwright’s rich understanding of relationships, and particularly his understanding of the fact that love is not always as formulaic as many a writer would have us believe, makes for a fascinating read. In fact, by directly comparing a realistic couple, full of real world self doubt and a fear of rejection with a very stereotypical love-at-first-sight type of relationship, Shakespeare is possibly making the point that love and relationships have more depth than is often given credit.
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Shakespeare, William; Much Ado About Nothing; Washington Square Press; New York, NY; New Folger Edition May 1995
Love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare examines the concepts of love in the tragic play
The William Shakespeare tragedy Othello features various types of love, but none compare to the love we find between the protagonist and his wife. In this essay let us examine “love” as found in the play.
Wonder, for a moment, what Shakespeare means when he uses the word “love”, if it really does exist in any of the relationships in this play, particularly between Petruccio and Katherine. Is love not a certainty?
Love is a powerful emotion, capable of turning reasonable people into fools. Out of love, ridiculous emotions arise, like jealousy and desperation. Love can shield us from the truth, narrowing a perspective to solely what the lover wants to see. Though beautiful and inspiring when requited, a love unreturned can be devastating and maddening. In his play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare comically explores the flaws and suffering of lovers. Four young Athenians: Demetrius, Lysander, Hermia, and Helena, are confronted by love’s challenge, one that becomes increasingly difficult with the interference of the fairy world. Through specific word choice and word order, a struggle between lovers is revealed throughout the play. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses descriptive diction to emphasize the impact love has on reality and one’s own rationality, and how society’s desperate pursuit to find love can turn even strong individuals into fools.
Shakespeare’s play is used in English classes from high school to collegiate levels. The interpretation of Shakespeare can be manipulated to reflect today’s time. In the Masquerader’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, the setting was in New Mexico rather than old time Messina in Sicily. The fields of Tuscany
Shakespeare, William. Much Ado about Nothing. Ed. Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat, and Gail Kern. Paster. New York: Simon &ump; Schuster Paperbacks, 1995. Print.
Much Ado About Nothing. The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997. 366-398.
William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing Much Ado About Nothing is clearly a classic comedy; lots of wit, puns, a group of stupid characters (Dogberry and the Watch) and although there are complications during the middle Acts, everything turns out right in the end. The first scene contains a lot of witty jokes and uses puns to show that right from the start of the play it is a comedy. Messenger: 'And a good soldier too, lady. ' Beatrice: 'And a good soldier to a lady. ' Beatrice and Benedick appear to have a 'teasing relationship'.
In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare shows that love has power to control one’s actions, feelings, and the relationship itself through the bond between a destined couple. The passion between the pair grew strong enough to have the capability to do these mighty things. The predestined newlyweds are brought down a rocky road of obstacles learning love’s strength and the meaning of love.