Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing are both love stories‚ but their portrayal of love is very different. In Much Ado About Nothing Claudio and Hero fall in love‚ break apart‚ and then fall in love again‚ while at the same time‚ Beatrice and Benedick are being tricked into loving each other. This is very different from Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are in a constant struggle for their love. Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing both contain the elements of;
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“Much Ado” seems to be a pretty general romantic comedy plot for a film. The only thing that was pretty confusing was the roles of Benedick with his men and Leonato. Whedon fails to really inform us what their significance are in the play. In the play Benedick is a soldier who is coming from battle to stay at the estate of Leonato. In this film‚ it seems that Benedick and Claudio might be working for the FBI or maybe undercover cops and that Leonato is some political figure but that was kind of unclear
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A Marxist study of Much Ado About Nothing Using the Marxist approach to one of Shakespeare’s comedies‚ Much Ado About Nothing‚ this essay deals with the unconscious of the text in order to reveal the ideology of the text (as buried in what is not said) so as to discover the hegemony behind the text. The ideology perpetuated in Much Ado About Nothing revolves around‚ centrally‚ ensuring the needs and insecurities of the aristocratic – the need for a patriarchal power‚ the need to reject‚ stigmatize
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sexual or romantic. In the play this kind of love is shown in between a few characters in the play‚ Benedick and Claudio‚ Don Pedro and Claudio‚ and Hero and Beatrice. (Act 2‚ scene 3‚ lines17-21‚ pg. 229) Benedick- (referring to Claudio) He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose‚ like an honest man and a soldier- his words are a very fantastical banquet‚ just so many strange dishes. Benedick is talking about Claudio and how he has fallen in love with Hero‚ he mentions how he’s not cut out for
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that bring serenity to the chaos that encompasses most of the play. 	The first example of deception we see is with the characters of Beatrice and Benedick. These two characters provide the humor throughout Shakespeare’s comedy; their repartees and soliloquies tend to leave the reader smiling and anxious for more dialogue between them. Beatrice and Benedick have had a relationship prior to their battles of wit to which she alludes to in Act 2: "Marry‚ once before he won it for me with false
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insignificant or literally nothing. 2. The setting is Messina‚ Italy at Leonato’s house 3. There is an air of happiness set in the first scene due to winning the most recent battle with the loss of only a few men 4. She asks this in reference to Benedick as a clever stab at him. This is just a continuation of their constant battle of wits 5. Claudio is interested in Hero because she is beautiful and a great girl‚ but he is also interested in her because with her being Leonato’s only child that makes
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plot twists‚ mistaken identity‚ and clever word play. The Play Much Ado About nothing is a compilation of all 4 components. The clever word play between the main characters is the main source of the humor. Especially the verbal duals between Benedick and Beatrice‚ who were once enemies to each other but then turned into lovers. The play takes unforeseen turn when Don John plots to create mischief and ruin the impending marriage between Claudio and Hero. Instead of doing it himself‚ Don John entrusted
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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
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becomes evident in the first act of the play when Claudio notices Hero and questions Benedick‚ “Benedick‚ didst thou note the daughter of Signor Leonato?” Benedick responds by saying‚ “I noted her not‚ but I looked on her” (1.1. 155-157). Benedick establishes a distinction between merely looking at someone and noticing someone closely by the way he criticizes Hero. From their observations it becomes clear that Benedick and Claudio perceive Hero as two different people. Claudio describes Hero as “a
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romance because the play is technically centered on love never the less the love is more funny than romantic for example with all the bickering between Benedick and Beatrice and the naive ‘love’ between Claudio and her. One of the ways that this can be seen as a comedy is the love hate relationship between Beatrice and Benedick In the first scene Beatrice say’s ‘I pray you‚ is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no? ‘ This can be seen as quite humorous as even though she is insulting him and
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