In Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare shows that you believe what you most want to believe or what you most fear to believe. Discuss.
             The use of suggestion had been known to be a powerful tool. In Much Ado About Nothing this idea is used, and in conjunction with the gullibility of the characters it shows that the characters as created by Shakespeare, believe either what they most want to believe or what they most fear to believe.
             Bene*censored* and Beatrice are two very similar characters that have the same views and opinions on marriage and of the opposite sex, and both want to remain single. However their minds are easily swade by the mere suggestion that they really are in love. Wanting to believe this, they too believe that they are in love with the person they had originally made clear to be an adversary.
             In contrast to this are Claudio, Don Pedro and Leonato who all fear that Hero has been unfaithful to Claudio and yet believe it so blindly without accurate proof. Claudio believes what he hears and accepts this with just a few seconds of what he assumes he sees and he makes assumptions that produce negative results, in particular ruining the reputation of an innocent girl.
             Throughout the play the statement made is shown to be true by using the characters in the play as examples.
             Even before Bene*censored* arrives in the first scene, Beatrice is straight away displaying her wit and in line 28 of Act I Scene 1 she refers to Bene*censored* as "Signor Mountanto." Bene*censored* likewise refers to Beatrice as "Lady Disdain" in line 110 of the same scene. From this opening scene it is quite clear that these two characters believe their relationship is far from love or affection. Beatrice's uncle, Leonato, describes their relationship as "a kind of merry war" depicting a love-hate relationship.
             Not only does the dialogue between Bene*censored* and Beatrice convince us of this bu...