Lovers in Messina
Figuratively speaking, there are several ears propped to a door, eavesdropping on a conversation pivotal to Shakespeare's comedy, Much Ado About Nothing; a story about love; real, new and pretended, that began before the messenger arrives with his news. Two very different couples cling to each other or push one another away during five acts of masked balls, sighing under balconies, hysterics, a make-shift death and resurrection, attempts to compose poetry and finally, a feast. The lovers of Messina: innocent Hero, fiery Beatrice and their gallant knights, weak Claudio and comic Benedict stumble through abundant trickery, taking very different paths to reach the same goal: a happily-ever-after ending. Hero, though one of the main characters of the play is a silent presence for the entire First and Second Acts, given a voice only when others speak about or for her. She is first introduced not by name, but as "the daughter of Signior Leonato", described by Claudio as a "modest young lady" and "the sweetest lady I ever laid mine eyes upon". Hero is described by everyone as beautiful, kind and gentle. Always she was the dutiful daughter. When her father, Leonato, instructs Hero that she must consent to a wedding proposal by Don Pedro
She used her newfound love with Bene*censored* to her advantage, demanding that he kill Claudio. While her cousin is the image of an innocent maiden, Beatrice has many of the characteristics of men and qualities that most other women did not have. "Beatrice is a strong woman firm in her ideas of not succumbing to a man, therefore becoming his wife. "There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May does the last of December. " Bene*censored* and Beatrice quarrel in a skirmish of wits which is merely a facade of their underlying attraction to each other, and an ongoing struggle of recognizing their love. , a man she barely knows, she happily agrees. He is a hero as Shakespeare deemed him worthy of a happy ending but also a villain for his treatment of Hero. After Hero's abortive when she was declared a "rotten orange" by the misguided Claudio, Beatrice remained true to her cousin, unlike her rash uncle. It is also possible that Claudio was attracted by her dowry. Bene*censored* is as firm in his belief of not marrying a woman. Marry, once before he won it of me with false dice. As for the relationships of these four characters, they are very different as well. Beatrice lives in Leonato's house and shares a room with Hero. In the play, the only conversation Claudio and Hero have is at their wedding when he denounced her and made public her accusation of promiscuity. " These two very different cousins are very close and more like sisters.
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