Shakespeare's Relationship In Much Ado About Nothing By William Shakespeare

In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare there are two main plots in the story. The first is about Claudio and Hero and their relationship, the second is Beatrice and Benedick and their relationship both of these relationships end up in marriage. Shakespeare compares these relationships side by side and you can clearly see his opinion on marriage. He believes in love, but he doesn’t believe in the arranged marriage that is happening during the Elizabethan era of his writing. In the play Claudio and Hero are the two main characters as well as the main plot of the play. They are a younger couple because of the immaturity that Claudio presents. Claudio in the play is very posseive, gullible, and insecure because he doesn’t want to be cuckold by Hero. Claudio talks very much like a lover to Hero. For example when he is talking to Benedick about Hero he states “In mine eyes she is sweetest lady that ever looked on” (Shakespeare 61). Claudio is saying that Hero is one of the sweetest lady he has ever laid eyes on. Another quote is “I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the contrary, if Hero would be my wife” (Shakespeare 61). Here Claudio is saying that if he had ever sworn never to marry, he would break his promise to himself if Hero

One where they hardly communicate, they have an arranged marriage, much younger couple, and that the gentleman is talking like a lover about a women he doesn’t love. The second relationship they communicate all the time, they have a choice in their relationship, and they are a much older couple than the other. Shakespeare shows his point that he doesn’t like the idea of an arranged marriage in fact you can argue that he hates it, but that doesn’t mean that he hates marriage all together. He loves the idea of marriage, but for him it has to come from the heart and not anybody’s