How does William Shakespeare explore the different kinds of love in "Much Ado about Nothing?" I am going to analyze the different kinds of love that Shakespeare made

part I will discuss the love between Benedick and Beatrice. At the start of the play Benedick appears after coming back from the war and immediately Benedick start insulting people then when Beatrice appears he starts to point out previous meeting that they have met. He always insists that he doesn’t need love and says that all who are taken by it are fools and will regret ever fallen in love. But everyone knows that he wants love and he just can face that he needs love. Whenever she makes a comment back he is always looking to get one back so really is like a child. Benedick: “Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher” Beatrice: “A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours” in these two quotes from the book Benedick and Beatrice are trading insults but it is known that the first sign of love is hate and them trading insults could be misconstrued as love. Benedick during the play starts to fall for Beatrice and when he hears the gentlemen talking of Beatrice’s love for him he starts to take a different view on Beatrice and this is the first obvious sign that Benedick is not just a cold hearted man, he is just lacking love. Beatrice is also fooled by the same trick, the trick where hero talks of Benedicks love for Beatrice, and when it is spoken of Benedicks feelings for her she is flattered and also let’s the thought creep into her mind that maybe there is love. We can see that Benedick is being stubborn in the way he speaks of Hero when talking to Claudio Benedick: “Why I’ faith, methinks she’s too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for great praise. Only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome, and being no other- I do not like her.” This quote says that she is not to Benedicks taste and therefore does not think highly of her. He is developing a harden surface towards love and wants no other to have what he hasn’t. Benedick then decides to take up Beatrice’s demand to challenge Claudio to a fight over this claim that Hero is sleeping around with other men. This is a declaration of his love for her since Claudio is his friend in war. In this part I am going to discuss the love between Hero and Claudio. This love is more obvious from the start and they do not try to cover it up. Claudio makes the first move by asking people about their thoughts on Hero and from Benedick he gets the view of a cold hearted man and from Don Pedro he gets a warm welcome and Don Pedro agrees to “win fair ladies heart” Hero is young and is still a virgin and has a father with a lot of estate, so has a high status in society. Hero is flattered by Claudio’s interest in her. Claudio seeks reassurance friends before hand by asking if she is good enough. There maybe a hidden agenda as when he finds out of Hero’s death he just accepts the hand of another one of Leonato’s daughters. So is there really love or is he just after the estate that Leonato owns. When Claudio allegedly sees Hero the “fair lady” making love to ………… he is quick to through the blain onto Hero and not even ask for her say in the matter Darren Rowbotham