The Awful Truth Have you ever been told something and it soon became a lie? I know I have and i’m sure others have too. It’s a feeling no one can push away so easily. In the play, Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, a comedy however, had some main issues with lying and eavesdropping. Much Ado About Nothing and my experience have a similarity of things not turning out they way they are expected.
My experience started in the summer before my junior year. I developed a relationship with a really sweet guy. I thought he was someone I could last for a while with. We had a good relationship and we seen each other pretty much everyday. As soon as school started, things became even better. He would walk me to class and stay with me after school until he had to leave. Suddenly, he began to change a little. It seem as if he would distance himself and i could tell. Homecoming rolled around and he asked to take me. It was honestly a good night and he seemed fine. A few days later, his messages were short and he would constantly put
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When Claudio came back, he wasn’t really sure if she still had feelings or not. His good friend Pedro had help him out and was able to win Hero's heart for him. Throughout the play, Don John had tried to break the relationship with Hero and Claudio. The big plan Don John had to split the two up was having Barachio and Margaret fool around in Hero’s room, making it seem as Margaret was Hero, and getting Claudio to see it happen down below from Heros window. As Claudio seen what was happening, he was furious and emotional. Don John comforts Claudio and the next day at the wedding, Claudio creates a big scene of leaving Hero. Don john comes around and says ‘come, let us go. These things, come thus to light, smother her spirits up’. Thus leaving Hero upset and Claudio not knowing he was lied
conflict with the character is the that Don John is jealous of his brother. And hates him and tries to ruin the wedding and marriage. So he makes a plane to ruin it and it works and Claudio shames hero at the altar and hero assumably died. And when she was proven innocent claudio
Do you also think that Benedick is Claudio’s foil? In the play: “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, a villain named Don John tricked Claudio by making him believe that Hero have been cheating on him which resulted in Claudio getting mad and ruining his and Hero’s wedding, accusing Hero that she was being unfaithful. After that, Hero faked her death and one of Don John’s minions admitted that he was paid to make Claudio believed things about Hero that are not true; Claudio married who was supposed to be Hero’s cousin without knowing that it was Hero that he was married to which surprised him and made him happy when it was revealed that it was Hero that he was married to. In this story, I do believe that Benedick serves as Claudio’s
Much Ado About Nothing states,” Any obstacle or barrier to Claudio’s happiness will be like medicine to me. I hate him so much it makes me sick, and whoever can ruin his happiness will make me happy” (II.ii.5). This demonstrates how Don John hates Claudio, and will preclude the marriage from happening . Now why would Don John hate Claudio, since Claudio impeded him from taking over his brother Don Pedro. Furthermore, building on this idea, the repercussions of this would cause hatred and inflict Claudio’s future because Don John would be out for him.
He brought them out were the rest of the crowd waited with there apprehension hidden good since men of those times are not really allowed too show much emotion. Claudion had sworn to blindly marry the bride of Leonatos choice and he stood up to do so The massked lady lay her hand in Claudios . only after the ceremony had begun did hero reveal her face. Another hero exclaimed Claudio whom was not always a quick wit.
Mckenna, I too wrote about the mindless monster and the negative effects it can have on someone. It's crazy to think about the lengths people will go to please someone and will overwork themselves to make sure others are happy. I believe that the only way to be truly happy is to make sure you're good first. The other aspect I agree with was your point on body language. That is something I need to work on a lot as well.
The audience may understand the concept of love and romance flowing within the characters because it was to portrayed that way but the critics would argue the fact that some of the characters like Beatrice and Benedick were made to fall in love with each other through deception. As simple as the characters were, the situations arousing in the play became more complexed as scenes passed by. What led to the trouble and chaos in the play also led to the solution in the end, when Claudio and Don Pedro were deceived into thinking by Don John that Hero was unfaithful. That very same idea also solved the problem in the end when Leonato, Hero’s father, deceived Claudio by making him believe that she is dead and that it is his duty to clear Hero’s name by reading out on her tomb and marrying the said niece who looks just like Hero. Again the plotting against own is present where the said niece turns out to be Hero and she comes back to life again.
Claudio, Hero and Don Pedro all realize how perfect Beatrice and Benedick are together and so they set up a plan to deceive the two of them into falling in love. Don Pedro comes up with the plan to be having Benedick eavesdropping on Don Pedro, Leonato and Claudio chatting about how much Beatrice is secretly in love with Benedick. Just as they expected , their plan goes off without a hitch. After the group is done talking and they all leave, Benedick comes out of hiding and start talking about what he just heard and realizes that he is in love with Beatrice. “I will be horribly in love wit her.”
Claudio shames Hero during their wedding ceremony, publicly lambasting her for her supposed infidelity, and how she has apparently misled him and everyone else in regard to her maidenhood, “She knows the heat of a luxurious bed; Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty” (4.1). Likewise, Sullivan scolds her ex-lover for deceiving her, confronting him in regards to how he has double crossed her and not been truthful, “You see you can't just play with people's feelings/Tell them you love them and don't mean it” (Sullivan). Indeed, both Claudio and Sullivan voice their grief upon learning about their partner's lies, and how they feel that their feelings have been blatantly disregarded. The two characters also condemn their partners for being two-faced, as they didn't even have the tact to lie by omission, but rather told them things that were the antithesis of the truth. Both feel disrespected in that their partners didn’t have the decency to be honest about their wrongdoings, and instead went behind their backs, concealing their true actions and nature behind lies and falsehoods.
Hero had chosen to accept Claudio’s proposal and claimed to have fallen in love with
The word deceit means to take action or practice deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth. In the novel Much Ado About Nothing, a theme of deceit is constantly present, and appears in many different forms. Deceit is used not only for wicked purposes, but mainly for good intentions. In Shakespeare's novel deception is used to initiate and continue the play's plot, by using the masking of characters, faking death and various other forms of deception to demonstrate how true deception can be in our lives. Deception can often be used to mask a certain identity for a particular reason.
Within the play, Much Ado About Nothing, there is a central theme of deceitfulness, as a way to solve a problem or an issue amongst the characters. Though this deception may be evil, it can often lead to positive endings after several conflicts. In the creation of this theme, Shakespeare uses both negative and positive examples to contribute to his lesson on ruses. Within this particular scene, all of the cons the various characters have put on are officially revealed to each other. This scene highlights that deception is not always evil, nor is it always moral, but is always solved.
Hero, nevertheless, falls in love with Claudio the first time she laid eyes on him and was ready to tie the knot, as that was the expected thing to
Hero express that you must manipulate someone's love life no matter the consequences when she explains, “some cupids kill with arrows, some with traps” (3.2.112). You must use trickery, to reveal their true feelings for the other person. In Much Ado About Nothing trickery and deception are central themes in the play. At least, every character in this play have been a victim of trickery or deception. This comes to show that manipulation can reveal the true feelings and thoughts about one another.
Claudio asks Don Pedro to win him Hero’s favor, At the Masquerade Ball and convince Leonato to approve a marriage
Shakespeare reveals the theme that people deceive others out of love, embarrassment, and hatred. All evidence comes from Much Ado About Nothing. Love makes people act less rationally than they would normally behave. In this case, Claudio has fallen in love with Leonato’s daughter, Hero. In this love-dazed state, Claudio seems thoroughly confused at Don Pedro’s plan to win Hero over on his behalf, due to being lied to about the actual plan by Don John.