Much Ado About Nothing shows different ways of how people are attracted to one another, and how their realization and definitions of "love" relate to their perceptions of inward and outward beauty. In this comedy, Shakespeare's satirizes love and human courtliness between two couples who take very different paths to reach the same goal.
             Upon going to war, Claudio saw a young woman named Hero that he had seen before going off to fight, and felt a strong affection towards her. Don Pedro soon heard word of this and told the governor, Hero's father. Leonato, the governor, informed his daughter of Claudio. However, Claudio is clearly attracted to Hero's outer beauty and knows nothing of her inner beauty. Nonetheless, after conversing with Bene*censored* and Don Pedro, he decides that he is going to ask for Hero's hand in marriage. Eventually, he woos her over himself and they set a date to be married.
             Don John, who is jealous of his brother, Don Pedro, and Claudio's happiness, decides to stop the marriage. He and his men hatch a plot that gets Claudio to believe that Hero has been unfaithful to him. Don John then convinces Claudio to keep his knowledge a secret until the ceremony. Then finally on the wedding day, just before speaking his vows, Claudio shocks the assembly by publicly accusing Hero of adultery. She protests her innocence to no avail, then faints from the shock. The men leave in disgust. Leonato believes his daughter's claim and they launch a plan of their own to regain her good name.
             Meanwhile, Bene*censored* and Beatrice find themselves being tricked into falling for one another. Both overhear conversations about how the other person is desperately in love but is afraid to reveal it. However, they soon learn to trust their feelings more than their observations of character and witty remarks to each other and as a result see inward beauty in each other. Towards the end of the play
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