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The document provides a plot summary and character analysis of William Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing", outlining the main characters, their roles in the plot which involves Claudio falling for Hero and being tricked into believing she was unfaithful, leading to confusion and deception being uncovered. Key themes of honor, social norms of courtship, and the complexities of deception in relationships are discussed through analysis of characters like Benedick, Beatrice, Hero and others.

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 1598 William Shakespeare 1564-1616
THE PLOT Leonato and his family Welcome some friends: Don Pedro, Claudio and Benedick Claudio falls in love with Hero The lovers and their friends decide to play a game Don John distrupt everyones happiness Fake death of Hero Discovery that Hero is really innocent Punishment of Claudio Double wedding
Leonato lives in Messin, with his daughter Hero, his niece Beatrice and his brother Antonio. At the beginning Leonato prepares to welcome some friends from a war: Don Pedro,claudio, Benedick, Don John. Claudio falls in love with Hero and they decide to be married. Benedick and Beatrice make a war of witty insult. The lovers and their friends want to fall in love Beatrice and Benedick. Beatrice, Leonato and Hero (Act I, scene I)
Claudio sees Borachio and Margaret, who looks like Hero, make love and he thinks Hero is unfaithful and accuses her of lechery. 4. Hero accused by her tricked fiance of having sex the night before their wedding. Heros family members pretend that she is died while they wait that the truth come to light. Borachio and Conrad, another of Don Johns followers, are arrested by local police. Everyone laern that she is innocent and Claudio grieves for her.
Claudio, as punishment, must tell everybody that Hero is innocent and he also wants to marry Leonatos niece. Claudio (Act V, scene iv) Claudio, Pedro and Benedick (Act II, scene III) Claudio goes to marry a mysterious masked woman. Hero reveals herself as the masked women. Than Benedick asks Beatrice if she will marry him.
CHARACTERS LIST LEONATO HERO DON PEDRO BEATRICE BENEDICK CLAUDIO
BORACHIO DOGBERRY & VERGES MARGARET ANTONIO URSULA DON JOHN
ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERS BEATRICE Niece of Leonato and close friends with her cousin Hero, Beatrice keeps up a merry war of wits with Benedick Hero describing that Benedick is in love with her, she opens herself to the sensitivities and weaknesses of love. Beatrice is a prime example of strong female characters
BENEDICK Benedick is the willful lord, returned from the war, who swear that he will never marry. He falls in love with Beatrice after the discussion between Don Pedro and Claudio. He is the most histrionic characters, entertainer, indulging in witty hyperbole and he gives a great example It is not easy for us to tell whether he of rethoric. has been in love with Beatrice all along or falls in love with her suddenly during the play.
DON PEDRO He is the noblest character in the social hierarchy of the play Don Pedro has power and manipulates other characters as much as he likes but in the interest of his friends to bring them happiness Don Pedro is sad at the end of a joyous comedy The text does not give us a conclusive explanation and this helps to make him one of the most thought-provoking characters in the play
A young soldier who fights under Don Pedro. CLAUDIO Claudio falls in love with Hero. His suspicious nature makes him believe evil rumors. LEONATO He is the governor of Messina and in his house the play is set. Leonato is the father of Hero and the uncle of Beatrice. He is second in social power only to DonPedro. DON JOHN The illegitimate brother of Don Pedro; sometimes called the Bastard. Don John creates a dark scheme to brake the happiness of Hero and Claudio. He is the bad of the play; his evil actions are motivated by his envy of his brothers social authority. The beautiful daughter of Leonato and the cousin HERO of Beatrice. Hero is lovely, gentle, and kind. She falls in love with Claudio but when Don John slanders her, she suffers terribly.
Heros serving woman, who helps Borachio and Don MARGARET John deceive Claudio into thinking that Hero is unfaithful. She is honest, but she has some conctacts with the bad world of Don John: her lover is Borachio. Margaret also likes to do jokes and teases. An associate of Don John. Borachio is the lover of Margaret. He conspires with Don John to trick Claudio and Don Pedro. His name means drunkard in Italian. BORACHIO One of Don John associates, entirely devoted to him. CONRAD Several recent productions have staged Conrad as Don Johns potential male lover. The chief policeman of Messina. Dogberry is very sincere and takes his job seriously, but he uses the wrong word to convey his meaning. Dogberry is a middle-class characters but his desire to speak formally and elaborately like the noblemen becomes an occasion for parody. DOGBERRY
VERGES The deputy to Dogberry, chief policeman of Messina. ANTONIO Leonatos elderly brother, and Hero and Beatricesuncle. A waiting man in Leonatos household and a musician. BALTHASAR Balthasar flirts with Margaret at the masked party and helps Leonato, Claudio, and Don Pedro trick Benedick into falling in love with Beatrice. One of Heros waiting women. URSULA
THE IDEAL OF SOCIAL GRACE The plays language is strongly laden with Characters represents the ideal that metaphor and ornamented by rethoric. Renaissance courtiers His words are very fantastical Benedick, Claudio, and Don Pedro banquet, just so used witty language to draw many strange dishes attention The play pokes fun at the fanciful language of love that courtiers used
DECEPTION AS A MEANS TO AN END The plot is based upon deliberate deceptions, some malevolent and others benign. Benedick and Beatrice In the play, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between good and bad deception. the social institution of marriage has little to do with love. The masking of Hero and other women. In the end, deceit is neither purely positive nor purely negative
THE IMPORTANCE OF HONOR In Shakespeares time, a womans honor was based upon her virginity and chaste behavior Leonato speaks of Hero loss of honor as an indelible stain from which he cannot distance himself Unlike a woman, a man could defend his honor, and that of his family, by fighting in a battle or a due Beatrice urges Benedick to avenge Heros honor by dueling to the death with Claudio
The real conflict that is the basis of this ado about MAJOR CONFLICT nothing Claudio, Don Pedro, and Benedick share a suspicion of marriage as a trap but they also in which husbands are bound to be deeply desire to controlled and deceived, bemarried. RISING ACTION Claudio falls in love with Hero Don Pedro woos Hero on Claudios behalf the perfidious Don John creates the illusion that Hero is a whore. Benedick who at the beginning of the CLIMAX Claudio rejects Hero at the altar play was opposed to women and love sides with Hero and his futere wife Beatrice Leonato proclaims publically that Hero died of grief at FALLING ACTION being falsely accused RESOLUTION He is rewarded by discovering that his bride is actuallyHero.
This project was realized by Aj嘆 Alessandro & Petr嘆 Simone

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Much ado about nothing (Ale/Simo)

  • 1. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 1598 William Shakespeare 1564-1616
  • 2. THE PLOT Leonato and his family Welcome some friends: Don Pedro, Claudio and Benedick Claudio falls in love with Hero The lovers and their friends decide to play a game Don John distrupt everyones happiness Fake death of Hero Discovery that Hero is really innocent Punishment of Claudio Double wedding
  • 3. Leonato lives in Messin, with his daughter Hero, his niece Beatrice and his brother Antonio. At the beginning Leonato prepares to welcome some friends from a war: Don Pedro,claudio, Benedick, Don John. Claudio falls in love with Hero and they decide to be married. Benedick and Beatrice make a war of witty insult. The lovers and their friends want to fall in love Beatrice and Benedick. Beatrice, Leonato and Hero (Act I, scene I)
  • 4. Claudio sees Borachio and Margaret, who looks like Hero, make love and he thinks Hero is unfaithful and accuses her of lechery. 4. Hero accused by her tricked fiance of having sex the night before their wedding. Heros family members pretend that she is died while they wait that the truth come to light. Borachio and Conrad, another of Don Johns followers, are arrested by local police. Everyone laern that she is innocent and Claudio grieves for her.
  • 5. Claudio, as punishment, must tell everybody that Hero is innocent and he also wants to marry Leonatos niece. Claudio (Act V, scene iv) Claudio, Pedro and Benedick (Act II, scene III) Claudio goes to marry a mysterious masked woman. Hero reveals herself as the masked women. Than Benedick asks Beatrice if she will marry him.
  • 6. CHARACTERS LIST LEONATO HERO DON PEDRO BEATRICE BENEDICK CLAUDIO
  • 7. BORACHIO DOGBERRY & VERGES MARGARET ANTONIO URSULA DON JOHN
  • 8. ANALYSIS OF CHARACTERS BEATRICE Niece of Leonato and close friends with her cousin Hero, Beatrice keeps up a merry war of wits with Benedick Hero describing that Benedick is in love with her, she opens herself to the sensitivities and weaknesses of love. Beatrice is a prime example of strong female characters
  • 9. BENEDICK Benedick is the willful lord, returned from the war, who swear that he will never marry. He falls in love with Beatrice after the discussion between Don Pedro and Claudio. He is the most histrionic characters, entertainer, indulging in witty hyperbole and he gives a great example It is not easy for us to tell whether he of rethoric. has been in love with Beatrice all along or falls in love with her suddenly during the play.
  • 10. DON PEDRO He is the noblest character in the social hierarchy of the play Don Pedro has power and manipulates other characters as much as he likes but in the interest of his friends to bring them happiness Don Pedro is sad at the end of a joyous comedy The text does not give us a conclusive explanation and this helps to make him one of the most thought-provoking characters in the play
  • 11. A young soldier who fights under Don Pedro. CLAUDIO Claudio falls in love with Hero. His suspicious nature makes him believe evil rumors. LEONATO He is the governor of Messina and in his house the play is set. Leonato is the father of Hero and the uncle of Beatrice. He is second in social power only to DonPedro. DON JOHN The illegitimate brother of Don Pedro; sometimes called the Bastard. Don John creates a dark scheme to brake the happiness of Hero and Claudio. He is the bad of the play; his evil actions are motivated by his envy of his brothers social authority. The beautiful daughter of Leonato and the cousin HERO of Beatrice. Hero is lovely, gentle, and kind. She falls in love with Claudio but when Don John slanders her, she suffers terribly.
  • 12. Heros serving woman, who helps Borachio and Don MARGARET John deceive Claudio into thinking that Hero is unfaithful. She is honest, but she has some conctacts with the bad world of Don John: her lover is Borachio. Margaret also likes to do jokes and teases. An associate of Don John. Borachio is the lover of Margaret. He conspires with Don John to trick Claudio and Don Pedro. His name means drunkard in Italian. BORACHIO One of Don John associates, entirely devoted to him. CONRAD Several recent productions have staged Conrad as Don Johns potential male lover. The chief policeman of Messina. Dogberry is very sincere and takes his job seriously, but he uses the wrong word to convey his meaning. Dogberry is a middle-class characters but his desire to speak formally and elaborately like the noblemen becomes an occasion for parody. DOGBERRY
  • 13. VERGES The deputy to Dogberry, chief policeman of Messina. ANTONIO Leonatos elderly brother, and Hero and Beatricesuncle. A waiting man in Leonatos household and a musician. BALTHASAR Balthasar flirts with Margaret at the masked party and helps Leonato, Claudio, and Don Pedro trick Benedick into falling in love with Beatrice. One of Heros waiting women. URSULA
  • 14. THE IDEAL OF SOCIAL GRACE The plays language is strongly laden with Characters represents the ideal that metaphor and ornamented by rethoric. Renaissance courtiers His words are very fantastical Benedick, Claudio, and Don Pedro banquet, just so used witty language to draw many strange dishes attention The play pokes fun at the fanciful language of love that courtiers used
  • 15. DECEPTION AS A MEANS TO AN END The plot is based upon deliberate deceptions, some malevolent and others benign. Benedick and Beatrice In the play, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between good and bad deception. the social institution of marriage has little to do with love. The masking of Hero and other women. In the end, deceit is neither purely positive nor purely negative
  • 16. THE IMPORTANCE OF HONOR In Shakespeares time, a womans honor was based upon her virginity and chaste behavior Leonato speaks of Hero loss of honor as an indelible stain from which he cannot distance himself Unlike a woman, a man could defend his honor, and that of his family, by fighting in a battle or a due Beatrice urges Benedick to avenge Heros honor by dueling to the death with Claudio
  • 17. The real conflict that is the basis of this ado about MAJOR CONFLICT nothing Claudio, Don Pedro, and Benedick share a suspicion of marriage as a trap but they also in which husbands are bound to be deeply desire to controlled and deceived, bemarried. RISING ACTION Claudio falls in love with Hero Don Pedro woos Hero on Claudios behalf the perfidious Don John creates the illusion that Hero is a whore. Benedick who at the beginning of the CLIMAX Claudio rejects Hero at the altar play was opposed to women and love sides with Hero and his futere wife Beatrice Leonato proclaims publically that Hero died of grief at FALLING ACTION being falsely accused RESOLUTION He is rewarded by discovering that his bride is actuallyHero.
  • 18. This project was realized by Aj嘆 Alessandro & Petr嘆 Simone

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