Much Ado About Nothing Analysis
"Much ado" essay
The play "Much Ado About Nothing" is not about nothing. It shows themes in the areas of deception and love. The play is also streaked with metaphors brining in the taming of wild animals. These ideas make proving themes and issues and easy and convincing argument.
The plot of the play is based upon deliberate deceptions, some bad natured and others well mannered. The deception of Claudio and Don Pedro results in Hero's disgrace, while the hoax of her death prepares the way for her redemption and reconciliation with Claudio. Lines like "men were deceivers ever" bring about the fact that the deception is a key theme in the play. Nothing shows that deceit is essentially evil, but in the play it is sometimes difficult to …show more content…
A developed love is shown where Beatrice and Benedick are first fooled into thinking the other loves them, but in the end it doesn't even matter because there love for each other has been nurtured into the point of commitment and marriage. The other type of love is where Claudio and Hero fall in love purely though the love their eyes has for each other, rather then the love their heart has for the other. This could also be a deceived love as their eyes have been captured by the others appearance, rather then their true feelings for each …show more content…
In the case of the courting of Beatrice and Benedick, this symbol of a tamed savage animal represents the taming, socially that one must undergo, for untamed souls to be ready to submit to the needs and trials of love and marriage. Beatrice vows this by saying, "taming my wild heart to thy loving hand" (3.1.113). Evident in the opening act, is Claudio and Don Pedro's comparing Benedick to a wild animal, the Prince in regard to this recalls a common adage, "Well, as time shall try. 'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke,'" meaning that in time even the savage bull, who is Benedick will break to the taming that love and marriage brings
The play "Much Ado About Nothing" is not about nothing. It shows themes in the areas of deception and love. The play is also streaked with metaphors brining in the taming of wild animals. These ideas make proving themes and issues and easy and convincing argument.
The plot of the play is based upon deliberate deceptions, some bad natured and others well mannered. The deception of Claudio and Don Pedro results in Hero's disgrace, while the hoax of her death prepares the way for her redemption and reconciliation with Claudio. Lines like "men were deceivers ever" bring about the fact that the deception is a key theme in the play. Nothing shows that deceit is essentially evil, but in the play it is sometimes difficult to …show more content…
A developed love is shown where Beatrice and Benedick are first fooled into thinking the other loves them, but in the end it doesn't even matter because there love for each other has been nurtured into the point of commitment and marriage. The other type of love is where Claudio and Hero fall in love purely though the love their eyes has for each other, rather then the love their heart has for the other. This could also be a deceived love as their eyes have been captured by the others appearance, rather then their true feelings for each …show more content…
In the case of the courting of Beatrice and Benedick, this symbol of a tamed savage animal represents the taming, socially that one must undergo, for untamed souls to be ready to submit to the needs and trials of love and marriage. Beatrice vows this by saying, "taming my wild heart to thy loving hand" (3.1.113). Evident in the opening act, is Claudio and Don Pedro's comparing Benedick to a wild animal, the Prince in regard to this recalls a common adage, "Well, as time shall try. 'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke,'" meaning that in time even the savage bull, who is Benedick will break to the taming that love and marriage brings