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    Goodmorning teachers and students, Much Ado About Nothing is a shakespearean play about many things, but I believe that by learning about it in school, we are taught not only about how the english language has evolved throughout the years, but also gives us a peek of just how horrible certain situations can become. Deceit, betrayal, and manipulation are just a few topics that this play teaches us how to avoid. In the play, Claudio, a young bachelor set on marrying the young lady Hero, is deceived

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    such as mistrust in friends and families, dealing with pains, and many more, which is considered as universal themes. Shakespeare is universal playwright because he appeals with themes that everyone can relate to and in his sixteenth play, Much Ado About Nothing and its BBC’s Shakespeare Retold adaption; it explores many themes, specifically, jealousy and gender. These two texts, examine the weakness of jealousy and the inequality of gender. Jealousy is one of the most dominant themes in all of

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    A Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is a romantic comedy that has its fair shares of ups and downs. Shakespeare once said "The course of true love never did run smooth." When it comes to this story this quote couldn't be more true. Throughout the story many relationships are tested, created, and terminated. In the story A Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare there are several opportunities where if a character had acted differently the course of the story could have been changed

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    You are probably wondering what are some of the recurring themes in the play, “Much Ado About Nothing” by Shakespeare. In the play Shakespeare has embedded many examples of dramatic irony in the form of tricks and deceptions. Some of the tricks were very benign like tricking Beatrice and Benedick into falling in love. Other tricks like tricking Claudio into believing that Hero was unfaithful was much more pernicious in nature. Both the pernicious and the benign tricks that were inserted into the

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    Much Ado About Everything Benedick and Beatrice are very important characters. This reason is, they there the opposite of Hero and Claudio. Benedick and Beatrice despise each other and have no interest in love. Until in (Shakespeare) Page 87, Benedict overhears Claudio, Don Pedro and Leonato, talk about how Beatrices love for him is abound. Soon Beatrice here's the same conversation from Ursula and Hero. After Claudio and Hero get married, they meet up and fall in love after some conflict. In Much

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    In the play Much Ado About Nothing, deception plays a key role in the development of characters. Main plots in the play come as a result of deceit. Without deception, the play would be lacking the necessary components to keep the story moving. Through the act of trickery, characters such as Hero and Claudio are forced apart similarly to the way Benedick and Beatrice are pushed together. Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is about deception and reveals that while duplicity is not inherently

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    love trend in Much Ado About Nothing written by William Shakespeare is that either you are ready to die for each other, or you are ready to kill each other; there is no in between. A good example from the play that shows this love trend would have to be the couple of Claudio and Hero. Claudio and Hero are not truly in love because Claudio never seems to trust Hero. Claudio has always been too quick to trust other people when it concerns Hero, and adding to this, Hero never spends much time with Claudio

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    A few themes that are present in Much Ado About Nothing include, deception and the importance of honor. In the play, Claudio falls in love with Hero, and Don Pedro decides to woo Hero for Claudio, but Don John plots to deceive them. He has Borachio to woo Hero’s maid at Hero’s window. He then informs Claudio that Hero is going to be unfaithful. This results in Hero’s disgrace, and the only solution that seemed fit was to pretend to be dead as a way for her redemption and reconciliation with Claudio

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    of Much Ado About Nothing, presents the idea that manipulation and trickery is carried out by the characters among the play. Even though deception was directed towards Claudio and Hero in dissolving their love for each other, it was the force that brought Beatrice and Benedick closer together. Not only did deceit help characters in the play, it also contributes to help present the play’s dramatic focus. Referring to “Deception in Much Ado About Nothing”, Richard Henze states, “Much Ado About Nothing

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    portrayed a story. Tragedies, Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy, which uplifts spirits as it circles the lives of Hero, Claudio, Beatrice, Don John, and Benedick. Love, trickery, and deception are motifs used to develop a theme relatable to years later. Using love as a basis tricks are placed everywhere in the Italian town of Messina to spark the interest of two or to ruin the love. In Much ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare’s explores the motif of deception, and how nothing is as it seems, connected

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