Much Ado About Nothing- Connector- LAST BLOG EVER!!!! :D
The last two acts were filled with drama. In act four we had Hero dying and friends being torn apart by love, when as in act 5 the friar and Hero’s friends help to unite the couple again and Beatrice and Benedick also get married. Like in Romeo and Juliet the Friar helps to save the day in Much Ado About Nothing, too. What do you guys think of this matter?
Do you think this was one of Shakespeare’s signature details to put in a story, have a friar and let him help?
Or do you think that because friars are also monks that it is just their normal instinct to help people in need?
At the end of Act 4 scene 1 Beatrice and Benedick are left alone in the church. Beatrice tells him how much she loves and, but also how he must kill Claudio to avenge Hero. I have seen this happen before in movies, when the two lovers are finally together but the one wants the other to do something bad to their own friend. Sometimes it didn’t turn out well and other times it, like in the musical WICKED. Glinda is married to Prince Fiyero who is in love with Elpheba (Wicked Witch of the West). Glinda and the rest of Oz want him to defeat her, while he wants to be with her. This story does have a happy ending, Fiyero turns into the scarecrow and is with Elpheba in the end, while everyone else, including Glinda, thinks she is dead.
Can you guys think of any examples of where else you have seen this sort of thing happen?
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Rebecca Krick
Category: Connector 3 comments »
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Your right Rebecca. In most of Shakespear’s plays someone is saying the day with great news. I guess this is a way to builod up suspense. It also satifies the end of the play for the reader. If Hero and Claudio wouldn’t have got married I would have been very pist.
How did you guys like the play? I liked it a lot because it had plenty of drama and kept me on the edge of my seat.
-Julian Garcia
May 24th, 2009 at 8:56 am
To answer your first question, I think the story was set up very well and the setting and the characters played important parts that made the story unique and interesting. I do think that this was probably one of “Shakespeare’s signature details”. As we have read two stories by him so far, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and now ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, they both included a Friar that helped them solve their problems.
With all honesty I understand what you mean by having the same sort of thing happen in other stories, but I cannot think of any examples. This story did have a pretty predictable plot, though.
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-Leah Sevco
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:44 pm
The play was good and I think the two plans were of great success. I did not reaaly enjoy how they did it but it was okay.
That is a good connection with the Friar point and I believe that good always defeats evil. Friar is the good and always wins.
Great Job Guys!
Alex