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    [Act1 scene3 line64]. The audience then know that these plans will be put into action at some point in the play. Deception in the form of delusion‚ or the characters deceiving themselves‚ is also utilised in Act 1. It’s the first time we meet Benedick and Beatrice who both deceive themselves into thinking they never want to marry because of a fear of getting hurt‚ ultimately believing they are something that they are not; both of them talk of being “bachelors”. This is particularly important as it shapes

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    Nothing Lines 110-137 In Modern Language Beatrice- I wonder that you will be still be talking‚ Signor Benedick‚ nobody marks you. I wonder why you are still talking‚ Signor Benedick‚ nobody is paying attention to you. Benedick- What‚ my dear Lady Disdain! Are you yet living? What‚ my dear Beatrice‚ are you living yet? Beatrice- Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain‚ if

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    Through rich imagery and a comic context Shakespeare uses characters to explore his ideas about love and marriage‚ using relationships to show the trials of love. In his play Shakespeare makes Beatrice and Benedick the critics of love and through them the modern audience is shown how Elizabethan society maltreats the female role and how the male code of honour and pride can lead to devastation. Shakespeare portrays Claudio and Hero as a pair of conventional lovers who go through an unadventurous

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    of an individual’s issues. In Much Ado About Nothing written by the prominent playwright William Shakespeare‚ the meaning of this quote is evident in the love story of the feuding characters Beatrice and Benedick‚ the problematic marriage of Claudio and Hero‚ and the villainy of Don John. Benedick and Beatrice deny themselves of happiness

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    ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ by William Shakespeare contains many aspects that anchor the Elizabethan conventions of comedy‚ but allows us to question whether the ending gratifies the audience and does it actually create a satisfactory dramatic catharsis? Aristotle first discussed the concept of catharsis. He believed that “the poet’s aim is to produce pleasure in the spectator by eliciting from the representation the emotions of pity (for others) and fear (for oneself)”. I believe ‘Much Ado About Nothing’

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    A Change of Heart One would describe love as an intense affection‚ which may result in a friendship or personal tie. It is an emotion that no one can honestly describe until it is actually experienced. Even though Benedick is a virgin to love‚ he disagrees with the concept of marriage‚ in which two people take commitment to each other by sharing a serious relationship. Using two different soliloquies‚ Shakespeare portrays Benedick’s attitude about love before and after the conversation among Claudio

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    scenes of ‘Much ado about nothing’‚ that I am going to go in more detail of‚ have two different opinions that the characters portray about marriage. There are four main characters who are the couples of the play‚ they are ‘Hero & Claudio’ and ‘Beatrice & Benedick’‚ both couples have opposite feelings towards marriage in scene one and may still think the same way about love and marriage in scene two but Shakespeare makes their characters portray it in different ways. Each scene gives the characters two

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    Shakespearean plays have often stressed the importance of relationships between men and women; most of Shakespeare’s plays‚ tragedies and comedies‚ involve romance between males and females‚ but the relationships that are far more poignant and effective in the play seem to be the relationships between the plays’ same sex characters. Examples of important same- and opposite-sex relationships appear in both of Shakespeare’s comedic plays Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. Twelfth Night and

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    these themes can be explored. In the play deception is shown on both good and evil sides‚ the game of love between Beatrice and Benedick and the Don John plot to split up Hero and Claudio. Perception is a theme used in most of Shakespeare’s plays. Perceptive views by the characters help portray the game of love. Hero is perceived as dead which then Claudio is sorry and feels for her. Beatrice and Benedick’s loved is clouded by each other’s perceptions and arguments. Deception is one of the main themes

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    of deception re occurring in various forms. On one hand deception is used throughout Much Ado About Nothing in a malicious manner‚ however on the on the hand it can be portrayed in a benevolent and beneficial manner such as the fooling of Beatrice and Benedick and deceiving them into proclaiming their love for each other. The use of both forms of deception often makes it difficult to distinguish between the two‚ such as when Claudio announces his desire to woo Hero‚ however Don Pedro takes it upon

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