Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice And Benedick Essay

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H.O.T. Questions
Can you identify the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick and how it played an important role in the story?
Beatrice & Benedick have a love-hate relationship
Their relationship contributes to the numerous lies that are told throughout the story Their relationship also helps to bring Claudio & Hero back together after the alleged “betrayal”
Can you assess the significance of the masks in the beginning of the play used in the ball in relation to the theme of the story?
The masks lead to the development of a motif of hidden identity filled with lies & deception
Characters hide behind the masks, causing cases of mistaken identity
Later in the story, margaret has an affair with Borachio and when Don Pedro sees the two, he thinks that Margaret is Hero, another case of mistaken identity
This leads to him disgracing …show more content…

Clothing motif= Being someone that you are not
Macbeth- The “borrowed clothes” is a symbol of property and wanting to have the title of King of Cawdor
Much ado about nothing- Margaret dresses up as Hero to try to trick Claudio, although she is unaware of the trickery; At the ball everyone was wearing a mask to hide their identity. What judgement would you make when Margaret advises Beatrice to take “carduus benedictus” to solve her sickness?
Margaret is trying to get the idea of Benedick ingrained into Beatrice’s

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