Analysis Of Much Ado About Nothing By William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare has been around for centuries and will continue to be around for many more centuries to come. With the current day and age, Shakespeare is still relevant in today’s time. It is especially more relevant to young adults in this age of time. Shakespeare’s plays are a classic that can be interpreted in many ways. The human nature and human behavior has not changed, but only the motivating factors and conditions through time. Shakespeare’s play is used in English classes from high school to collegiate levels. The interpretation of Shakespeare can be manipulated to reflect today’s time. In the Masquerader’s production of Much Ado About Nothing, the setting was in New Mexico rather than old time Messina in Sicily. The fields of Tuscany …show more content…

The setting and time might have changed, but internally we are still the same human species that walked this Earth. Much Ado About Nothing reveals the courtship of Beatrice and Signior Benedict. Nothing much has changed, we still love the same way and fall in love the same way. The cunning ways of both their friends on merging the two together still exist in today’s society. It is comparable to high school romance. The childish ways are still present and it is not easily distinguishable in today’s world. Shakespeare mocks our ways, but shed insight on how we go about our ways. It is easily relatable to anyone at any age, and especially young adults. We do not see ourselves doing it directly, but stepping back and having an outside perspective we can easily see ourselves replicating the same actions. Shakespeare’s play exposes the young adults to more experiences that can reflected upon a later time. To my point of view, Shakespeare writes for emotions, not for action and glory for what a movie depicts. This is why Shakespeare is still around and can be considered timeless. It is easily malleable to fit in any …show more content…

The play evokes an exemplified expression of frustration and love which we bottle in. With today’s technology, social media makes it harder for us to communicate to each other; it was a tool that was meant for us to easily connect to each other, but that is not the case. We hide behind it and we start to lose our ability to communicate to each other face to face, failing to reveal our true emotions to each other. We fail to notice this dilemma because our cultural norm has changed and it is acceptable for us to hide behind text messages instead exchanging words with our mouth’s. It was a part of the play when Beatrice and Signior Benedict tried to hide their love from each other. In the end of Much Ado About Nothing, both parties tried to hide behind their excuses claiming that they only loved one another because one was madly in love with the other. Signior Benedict was flushed out when one of his friends revealed his sonnet for Beatrice that truly came from his heart. Beatrice was uncovered by Hero the same way since Beatrice also professed her love to Signior Benedict in a piece of paper. Both of them never planned to read it to each other. In a way Shakespeare understood human emotions and interactions. His works is a necessity of the years to come. It shifts us back into the lost ways in the art of

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