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Theme Of Loyalty In Much Ado About Nothing

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How does the theme of loyalty contribute to most of the conflicts in Much Ado About Nothing? In Much Ado About Nothing, the plot revolves mainly around Claudio and Hero. A whole situation occurs because Don John and Borachio plan to ruin Claudio’s and Hero’s wedding. Don John comes up with this idea because he doesn’t favor Claudio since Claudio got all the glory and everything. So this mainly happens because Don John is jealous. Aside from this, Beatrice and Benedick are also in this story. At the beginning of the story, these two characters have lots of hatred for each other because they are exes. Towards the end of the story, they become lovers. This situation happens because other people interfere with Benedick’s and Beatrice’s relationship …show more content…

Claudio and Hero end up having conflict due to the fact that Don John made Claudio think that Hero was sleeping with Borachio but in reality, Hero never did that. Hero not being loyal to Claudio made him get upset and led to him slandering Hero in front of everyone before they get married. In Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare, it says, “ Take your daughter back again. Don't give this rotten orange to your friend…[To the others] Wouldn't you swear, all of you who see her now, that she's a virgin, based on her exterior? But she is no virgin.” (lines 31-36). This evidence shows how loyalty is a theme in this story because Claudio is irritated that Hero did stay loyal to him since she “slept” with another man and before marriage as well. Loyalty is very important to Claudio because he wants a woman that can give him honesty and innocence. So when he sees “Hero” doing that he gets agitated because he never expected that from …show more content…

In the story Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare it says “ Benedick- Come, bid me do anything for thee. Beatrice-Kill Claudio, Benedick-Ha! Not for the wide world.” (lines 302-304). This quotation demonstrates fidelity because Beatrice tells Benedick to kill Claudio, but Benedick fundamentally says that he’ll do anything for Beatrice but that. Benedick is loyal to Claudio because they are friends, even after everything Claudio did to Hero, he stays faithful to him by not going after him until later on in Act 5… Besides that, Benedick stays truthful to Claudio by not killing him even if Beatrice says so. The main reason Benedick goes after Claudio in act 5 is because Beatrice begged Benedick to do so, it never was because Bendick really wanted to do so, therefore Benedick ordered Claudio to

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