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Much Ado About Nothing Love Quotes

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Many people are blinded by sweet gestures and pretty faces, but those things don't make love. In the book Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare there are two ¨ lovers ¨ named Claudio and Hero. They have many complications to their relationship that don't add up when placing their relationship in the “true love” category. After reading Much Ado About Nothing, a major conclusion from this book is that Claudio and Hero are not truly in love. First off, one of the most key aspects of a relationship is trust.
During Claudio and Hero's first wedding scene Claudio shows no sign of trust in Hero, as he acts strange and asks Hero if she knows of a reason the wedding should not go on. “I came hither to tell you; and, circumstances / shortened- …show more content…

She will sit you-you heard/ my daughter tell you how./She did indeed/...You amaze me. ”Leonato lines 112-113 Act 2 Scene 3 /Claudio line 114 Act 2 Scene 3. Contained in these quotes is a conversation between Leonato and Claudio over how Claudion is finally getting married. Leonato is clearly ecstatic about the entire situation because Hero is his daughter after all. Throughout most of this scene claudio is boasting about his marriage to come and Leonato is praising him for it. This exemplifies how the only thing Claudio cares about is the attention and the love he is getting for everyone now that he is getting married. He doesn’t talk about how much he cares for Hero, or how her personality doesn’t compare to any other womans, this goes to show how his new marriage is a thing of lust not love. “Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable./Yet tell her of it; hear what she will say.” Ursula lines 71 and 81 Act 3 Scene 1. Ursula got news of the wedding and is now taking Leonatos place for Hero in praising her now that she is getting married. Hero is a humble woman and doesn’t want all this praise, but what Ursula is saying exemplifies how praise doesn’t goes towards just men, it goes to the bride as well. Hero did truly believe this was love, but as a tragic realisation is wasn’t after all. After her marriage was spread around the town she got and entire new rep from everyone; she wasn’t just viewed as some “innocent little girl”

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