Amanda Nunn Much Ado about Nothing Comment on the significance of Act IV scene 1 to the rest of the play. How effective do you think it would be on stage? Act IV, scene 1 is the most significant scene in the play, where a sharp comedy turns to near tragedy. The scene can be split into t...

"The truth about man is not merely that he is, by nature, savage and afraid, but that he refuses deliverance, and murders the messenger of light"(Dick, "Criticism" 197). This view of our nature as human beings is based on the teachings of the Christian doctrine of original sin, a theory that has be...