(i live in england) i am currently 'trying' to do a shakespeare essay and am really stuck!! my question i have to answer is
HOW WERE WOMEN TREATED IN MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING?
if anyone has any ideas or a website that will help me pleaseee tell me it is much appreciated!!!.
2007-03-10 23:14:43 · 4 answers · asked by LAURaaa 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The shallow immature love between Claudio and Hero is contrasted with the mature love between Beatrice and Benedict. Claudio and Hero fall "in love" at first sight. Then
Claudia dumps Hero just because he thought she had "talked out of a window" (hence the title, Much Ado About Nothing). Then, at the end of the play, Hero foolishly took the jerk back.
Despite the exchange of insults, Benedict treated Beatrice with great admiration, respect, and devotion. Their love had been simmering beneath the surface for a long time.
Queen Elizabeth I had said that she didn't want to "make windows into men's souls," meaning she didn't want to persecute Catholics for their beliefs (as long as they kept them private). Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing" and "talking out of a window" may have been a subtle satire against religious intolerance (as well as against abuse of women).
2007-03-12 07:12:32 · answer #1 · answered by Ray Eston Smith Jr 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
kinfolk ties have been plenty greater acceptable than they at the instant are, and individuals did no longer have a tendency to be disloyal to contributors of their kinfolk; additionally friendships have been taken heavily and if somebody did you incorrect, you may desire to anticipate your buddy to diminish back you up and punish the wrongdoer. we've not got a tendency to permit thoughts of loyalty to get interior the way of perfect and incorrect, yet in Shakespeare's time, loyalty replaced into the backside of perfect and incorrect and replaced into valued specially else.
2016-10-01 22:34:27 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately this looks like an opinion question where you read the play, form an opinion and then defend that position.
There isn't any way to answer this for you.
2007-03-10 23:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Women were treated frivoluously, and were not taken seriously in any activities ---even in family matters.
2007-03-11 23:25:11 · answer #4 · answered by thegentle Indian 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋