Examples Of Trickery In Much Ado About Nothing

In William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick and Beatrice are foils of each other but they still end up marrying each other. They may have been tricked into loving each other but then they found out they actually like each other. This relationship helped further the story by changing Benedick completely and making him do anything for Beatrice, even going as far as to try and kill Claudio. This paper will be about how 2 character foils ended up getting married and how they progressed the story line of Much Ado About Nothing Although she appears hardened and sharp, Beatrice is really vulnerable.

William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is supposed to be a comedy and for the most part it is, but tragedy still strikes even in the happiest of times. Leonato loved and cherished his daughter, Hero, but when her soon to be husband, Claudio, claims she was unfaithful, Leonato is enraged (page 58). This one pretension completely changes everything for Hero and Leonato. As a result of the claim, Leonato tells his once dear Hero “ … But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! … For thee I’ll lock up all the gates of love.”(page 60). Leonato’s reaction to hero’s supposed unfaithfulness alters their relationship

This shows that rumors have been passed around to the families. Claudio was almost going to believe Don John, but luckily we found out that it was all rumors that was taking away a person’s relationship. From all this, Shakespeare is trying to tell us that never believe someone from his words until you find out the truth yourself, because it can turn into a rumor. False statements can destroy and brainwash people’s minds.

This is due to people paying attention to a specific idea and not looking more broadly. Don Pedro is the Prince of Arragon. He looks to improve the welfare of his friends with the desire of love. Mainly, he desires to bring Benedick and Beatrice together whom were rivals. In order to do this, he lies to accomplish what he wants. To improve his friend's welfare, Don Pedro claims,” If she should make tender of her love,’tis very possible he’ll scorn it; for the man…”,”(lll ,iii,28) in an attempt to persuade Benedick that Beatrice loves him. This plan worked as Benedick voiced,” by this day! she’s fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in her,”(lll ,iii,29) believing in Don Pedro story. This clearly shows that Benedick fell for Don Pedro plans by believing that Beatrice likes him. By Benedick announcing,”I do spy some marks of love in her,”(lll ,iii,29)shows that he fell for Don Pedro’s plan to bring Benedick to love Beatrice. At that moment in the play there was no scent of love from Beatrice; clearly, Benedick is illusioning the words of Don Pedro and falls in love with Beatrice because he thinks Beatrice loves him. The idea that Beatrice loves(which is a lie) Benedick causes Benedick to fall in love because realizes that being in love is superior than being a bachelor. Also ,another person the lied within the play was Don Pedro brother, Don John. Don John is the

Shakespeare has written many interesting plays, both comedic and tragic. One specific play, Much Ado About Nothing, is a comedy about two couples. In it, deception, as sometimes portrayed by the use of masks, is an important theme that propels all of the events of the play, but the deception shown in this play is neither positive nor negative, for it depends on the intentions of the deceiver. Whether it is during a masked ball, people pretending to be other people, or simply telling lies, deception is the main theme since it allows the characters to have fun, match-make, harm others, or make them understand the depth of slander. Deception can be used for both teasing, fun, and harm.

Characters were either mislead or pulled into situations that masked them without any realisation. Margaret is a great example of a character that was masked unintentionally when Don John and Borachio were planning to deceive Claudio. She had no idea that she was tugged into a mess of slander because of her actions with Borachio and was immediately seen as Hero, not herself. Because Borachio wanted Claudio to hear him “call Margaret ‘Hero’”(II.ii.35) so that it “shall appear such seeming truth of Hero’s disloyalty”(II.ii.38-39), it was an act to mask Hero as someone that she was not. She lost her morals and dignity and Margaret had no perception on what was going on in the process. Many were deceived during that time because of another’s jealousy and desire to sabotage someone else’s happiness. Even though Hero and Margaret were unintendedly masked, it was honesty that wiped away the masks of slander and

Shakespeare has demonstrated the ramifications of human nature that have arisen through the misunderstandings of the characters. Shakespeare does this by effectively conveying the dramatic technique reversal. The purpose of the technique is to show the reader the complexities of human nature by demonstrating that even a common example of misunderstanding could change the direction of one's life, and the perception of an object. This is evident through the quote “That I love her, I feel” in Act 1 scene 1, said by Claudio about Hero, which is later contradicted with the quote “There, Leonato, take her back again. Give not this rotten orange to your friend”, who is referencing Claudio’s betrayal. Claudio believed that the person Borachio was making love to was Hero instead of Margaret, due to the succession of Don John’s master plan. During this scene, Claudio displays a sense of misunderstanding by falsely concluding that his fiancée had been ‘unfaithful’ to him. Reversal is shown when Claudio is enraged by the fictitious actions of Hero when he abandons her at the day of their wedding. Shakespeare has demonstrated misunderstanding through the dramatic technique, reversal to explore the complexities of human nature.

Don John's malevolent plan to ruin Claudio and Hero's wedding was to take effect the night before they were to wed. The malicious Don John constructed, or rather misconstructed, the scheme that insinuated Claudio's belief in Hero's faithlessness. It is Don John who reports to Claudio and Don Pedro that Hero is having an affair, and he who stage-manages an elaborate charade featuring his own henchman Borachio and an unwitting stand-in for Hero to lend credence to this fiction. Perhaps the most significant thing to be noted in connection with this deception is that the spectator does not witness the crucial scene in which Claudio overhears the counterfeit exchanges between Margaret and Borachio that persuade him of Hero's guilt. We learn of this episode only at second hand, when Borachio boasts of his exploit (Lucking).

Full Essay: In the play Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare shows many different human conditions that characters portray, including love, honor, and most importantly, deceit. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, deceit is the act of deceiving someone by hiding or misrepresenting what is true. However, there are two different types of deceit. There is a lighter side of deceit, where deceit is used to hide or twist things that in the end, will help out a person or benefit them in some way.

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.

Although the love between Claudio and Hero is much more pronounced, there is strong evidence in the play to suggest that the love between Beatrice and Benedick is more genuine, despite how much they insult each other. While Claudio and Hero appear to be passionate lovers, Claudio and Hero’s façade of love conceals foul undercurrents in their relationship. There’s no denying that they are the couple more voluble about their love, especially Claudio, but there’s evidence that their feeling for each other are shallow and insincere. Claudio falls for Hero and declares his love for her the very first time that he meets her and asks her to marry him after only a few encounters. He does not give

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.

  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.

Each of the main characters in Much Ado About Nothing is the victim of deception, and it is because they are deceived that they act in the ways that they do. Although the central deception is directed against Claudio in an attempt to destroy his relationship with Hero, it is the deceptions involving Beatrice and Benedick which provides the play's dramatic focus.

Claudio also says that Hero has known a “luxurious bed”, a shocking accusation which implies that she has slept with another man just the night before their wedding; something extraordinarily shameful for Hero as women at that time were valued for being a virgin up to the time they got married. Claudio then refers to Hero explicitly as an “approved wanton” in line 41 provides extra shock as his rage is now very high. Calling her a proven whore in front of every one at the wedding is very mean and at the same time scandalous.