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Much
Ado About Nothing
Leisure
is the key to deception. In Much
Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare plays with the fact that when you have
nothing to do your mind creates fiction that follows by horrible destruction.
Honesty coins with hard working people and falsehood relates to those
you have excess time.
Dogberry and Company are hard working people who are able to sort out
the scandal because they are outsiders. They
stumble onto the truth because they did not see the fictional lovemaking and
are not emotionally involved with key characters like Claudio and Hero’s
family. The reason that Claudio
did not have the ability to see the truth was because back then and even
today, people do not stop and confront the situation.
Claudio’s childlike behavior should have been a reason for Hero not
to marry him. Dogberry and
Company represent the agency of simplexes and merit because they were on the
outside looking in. These investigators
found out the deception of Don John because of their ability to assess the
matter in a mature way. Immaturity
can also be associated with those who have excess time.
There are two roles of an idiot character.
The first is for humor and the second is to experience the minds of the
minor characters. Faustus,
Edward II and even Romeo and Juliet were all tragic plays.
Scholars say, that the same person, Shakespeare, wrote all three of
these plays.
Evidence that Dogberry is an “idiot” character is in scene four,
section two.
Dost
thou not suspect my place? Dost
thou not suspect my years? O,
that he were here to write me down an ass!
But masters, remember that I am an ass, though it would be not written
down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
In this scene
Dogberry is accusing Don John of lying. He
burglarized Hero from Claudio. His
intervention between these two was uncalled for.
Dogberry’s speech seems ridiculous but reveals a great deal of truth.
He says he is an ass, even though there is no visible proof.
Within this he is trying to convince Conrade and Sexton that Don John
is at fault. He has no proof but
wishes they would believe his word just like there is no evidence he is a real
ass.
Was
Shakespeare such a disturbed person or were the people around him living lives
of deception? His depressionists
writings involve tragedy and seriousness.
Much Ado About Nothing does not.
The common thread between those three plays is the fact there was no
idiot character. Idiot characters
are able to step back and tackle sticky situations.
Much Ado About Nothing is a play of light heartedness and fate.
Those who do wrong do not get their way and those who accept fault
create peaceful lives. Don John
was denied disrupting long lasting happiness.
He also brought someone down with him.
Borachio, his servant, had him make love to Hero’s servant and the
eyes of Claudio saw Hero committing lechery.
An evil character like Don John is used as an example of what “no
gooders” fate will be. In the
end, Claudio and Hero marry and Benedick and Beatrice agree to marry creating
a happy ending.
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