Essay on Much Ado About Nothing

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Essay on Much Ado About Nothing

Beatrice and Benedick, a match made in Heaven or Hell?

 

    This essay will concentrate on the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick. This relationship changes throughout the cause of the play. The focus of the essay will be on the characters, themes and the plot structure. Also how Beatrice and Benedick’s romance changes and why it changes; and the character of Beatrice and Benedick. Shakespeare wrote the characters in this way because he wanted to make each character have a different personality and a different back ground. He wrote Beatrice as a character who didn’t care about marriage because she was an orphan. Also Beatrice and Benedick insult each other in the play and the context is they use feeling less words to insult each other. The other characters adjust to what is happening in the surroundings, ie: Claudio who believes everyone except Hero the person who he supposedly loves. The characters all have different parts in the play and they play there parts very well. The language in the play is different because each character uses a different type of language according to the character. In the play it says ‘merry war’ this means a friendly battle and only Beatrice thinks of this language as a war but every other character knows that this is a friendly battle between Beatrice and Benedick and this is what makes them fall in love. Also the language is very formal, as the characters speak directly to each other. The insults between Beatrice and Benedick are formal as they tell the insult to each others faces. The language between Beatrice and Benedick is very direct as they insult each other but they still love each other. Beatrice says, “You always endona Jade’s trick, I know you of old.” This shows that they have a history, possibly romantic. Also they both have been in love before and then they broke up and went their separate ways. They must have feelings for each other as they broke up and now have got back together in a relationship which is bonded by arguments and insults between the couple. So they must like this bond and the how they show their love. Even though they have now got back together, after separating.  

    The impression we get at the beginning of the play is that the Beatrice hates Benedick but the other characters in the play don’t take this seriously. In the play Beatrice says, “He is no more than a well stuffed man” and it says, “He is a valiant trencher-man, he hath an excellent stomach.” This shows that Beatrice doesn’t like Benedick and that both of them argue a lot. This suggests he is always eating and enjoying himself rather than working. Benedick says, “What, my dear lady Disdain! Are you yet living?” This is an insult that Benedick says to Beatrice. In the beginning of the play both Beatrice and Benedick say insulting things to each other. But as the story leads on, these insults make Beatrice and Benedick like each other.

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   The character of Beatrice is that she is a noisy and informal woman who is always fighting and giving insults to Benedick. She is a woman who hides her true colours and she says things that she doesn’t really mean. She is a woman who says she doesn’t want to fall in love and she talks to men. In the play there is a speech where she is flirting with the Prince and Claudio. Talking the point of Beatrice is that she doesn’t think she flirts although this is what she the arguing is about. Margaret is asked to ...

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