Much Ado About Nothing Dogberry Character Analysis

Dogberry: A Foolish Nobleman
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is a comedy that possesses tragedy characteristics. All the characters have certain roles they uphold throughout this story that contribute to a bigger picture. While the play had many serious moments, Dogberry and his clan were designed to be the entertaining comic relief that took away from the evil plot that was going on with Don John. During this essay, Dogberry’s character will be analyzed three ways. Dogberry character sets a different tone in the play through his personality by being an asinine leader. He is in charge of the watch, which is the local police force in Messina. He took his position of being in charge of the watch very seriously. Besides the fact that he is the comic relief, he is very sincere in how he wants his message to come off. Even though he means well it isn’t received the same way, he would like. He has a very bad habit of using malapropisms in his dialogue. An example of this is his first encounter with Leonato, “Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you that decerns you nearly.”

It is the use of semantic that drives much of the conflict in the play to it’s climax. Dogberry character is the foil that reflects the excesses of the other characters wit and he is fundamental to the action of the play. He is view as the comic relief. His malapropisms put an interesting twist to the play. The fact that Dogberry has been given special incite on a plan that will destroy Claudio and Hero’s union, he remains the star in the play, a nobleman indeed of the mid-1800. Throughout the play we notice that Dogberry’s role as nobleman is dismissed for a foolish man. His foolishness is funny and uplifted the dark, evil, and dull moments within the