Much Ado About Nothing Misogyny

I feel as though throughout the story Shakespeare is making fun of Claudio and hero, with their “romantic” ideas. With that, I am not totally sure which one is “should” like. In part I believe he wants us to love Claudio and Hero because they are the “fairytale” couple, but I think more that Shakespeare is pushing his audience to find that not all love stories or “happily ever afters” are

Deceit and trickery play a huge part in the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare. Deception is a key theme in the play, it also moves the plot along. Trickery and deception is used in the love stories of couples Hero and Claudio, and Benedick and Beatrice, with opposite results. This play demonstrates two different kinds of deceit: the kind whose only purpose is to cause trouble, and the kind that is used to form a good outcome. In the relationship of Hero and Claudio, deception nearly succeeds in breaking them apart forever, while in the case of Benedick and Beatrice, it brings them closer together.

Hero and Claudio are the class of lovers that are pictured as an ideal relationship from others’ perspectives. They are ascertained in the comedy as the prioritized and conflicted relationship, but they are polar in comparison to their relationship to Benedick and Beatrice’s. Examples according to it, exclaimed by Hero, “O god of love! I know he doth deserve

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Drama text, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is a romantic comedy revolved around marriage, dishonesty and love. In 2007, the original play had been interpreted and adapted into a new film text; Much Ado About Nothing Shakespeare Retold. This new film version is an adaption for the modern audience who’s views around love and marriage have changed since Elizabethan times. Brian Percival ‘Retold’ the original play, first published in 1623 by reinterpreting it into his own understanding of modern society with the focus of women’s roles nowadays. Whilst doing this Percival has maintained many of Shakespeare’s intentions.

In the evaluation of the third act of the play, “Much Ado About Nothing” written by William Shakespeare, it is clear and evident that one quote stands out among all the others to show the most meaning and the most important to the vitality of the third act of the play. In the text, Shakespeare states, “The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. I could say she were worse. Think you of a worse title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till further warrant. Go but with me tonight, you shall see her chamber window entered, even the night before her wedding day. If you love her then, tomorrow wed her. But it would better fit your honor to change your mind” (3.2.102-109). When Don John, the play’s infamous villian, decides to trick Claudio into thinking that Hero is disloyal, it demonstrates the overall feeling of sabotage in the third act, all in combination with the lie that Don John has created and released among the other characters to try and inflict sadness on the fiancé of Hero, or Claudio. Overall, the critiacal aspect of this quote to the endurance of the rest of the act is obviously vital to the continuity of

During the two gulling scenes, namely Act 2 Scene 3 and Act 3 Scene 1,

In William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing, love has played a major rule as theme in this play. Shakespeare discussed different kinds of loving relationships; romantic love, family support and loyal friendship, and he shows how different characters react to love in many different ways. The main plot of Much Ado About Nothing is that of the relationship between Claudio and Hero, and the hidden love between Benedick and Beatrice. Similarly, deception is a big concept to consider as a theme in this play. Each of the main characters being the victim of deception; Shakespeare in this play shows that deception is not inherently evil, but can also be pure.

  Much Ado About Nothing raises many important issues concerning the institution of marriage. Perhaps Shakespeare's purpose in writing this play was to question the existing approach to relationships and marriage. Shakespeare reveals the faults of the process through the characters of Hero and Claudio and also Hero's father, Leonato. Shakespeare also may be suggesting an alternative approach to marriage and relationships through the characters of Beatrice and Benedick.

In Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare uses Claudio and Hero to showcase the original ways of marriage and uses Benedick and Beatrice in order to show and untraditional way of love and marriage.

In Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, there are the usual characters that show up in most of Shakespeare’s pieces. For instance the characters Hero and Claudio could easily be compared to Romeo and Juliet. Both Hero and Juliet are innocent, quite, and beautiful young women who fall in love instantly without conversing with the other person. Likewise, Claudio and Romeo decide to marry these women within twenty-four hours. Because of these characters’ lack of unique and interesting qualities, I

Much Ado about Nothing is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare. Deception is a repeated theme throughout the play and it performs an essential role in the matters relating to romance. There are two couples who unwittingly are participants in the matchmaking and the match breaking schemes of others. There is Claudio of Florence and Benedick of Padua who arrive at Leonato’s house in Messina with Don Pedro, after being away in battle. Then, there is Hero, Leonato’s daughter, and heir, as well as her devoted cousin, Beatrice. In Much Ado about Nothing Shakespeare uses language and literary devices to reassure the audience that love will persevere and prevail in the end. He achieves this by juxtaposing Benedick and Beatrice with Claudio and Hero.

Claudio, which is a dominant principal character in the play, is at first displayed to the audience as an appealing likeable young man. However, further on into the play, we may begin to realise that he is in fact a misogynist, through his actions towards his fiancee, Hero. Hero’s marriage to Claudio is supposed to be a love story ­­ in the first scene with Claudio, Shakespeare shows that Claudio falls in love with Hero at first sight. He describes her as “She is the sweetest lady that [he] ever looked on,” causing the audience to make the assumption that his feelings towards Hero was faithful and unwavering. This does not last.

Much Ado about Nothing deals with the themes of Gender and Love. In regards to the concept of ‘Misogynism’ of the Shakespearean era, there was gender prejudice, feminism and misandry which may have been perceived by the contemporary audience to demonstrate a hatred of women. Midway through the reign of Queen Elizabeth (during 1580), did women begin to struggle against their traditional subordinate status on a scale that seemed large to their male contempories. The reason for this was due to men and woman being treated differently. However, a modern audience, the unfolding aspects of comedy within these elements such as wit, marriage and stock characters has deemed this play as not too misogynistic for a modern audience to appreciate it as

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