'Much Ado About Nothing – Theme of Deception Essay\r'

' conjury plays a huge role in the darn of Much pettifoggery About Nothing, from the major dramas of tire out John and Claudio’s love to the duping that led to the manner of speaking together of Benedick and Beatrice. Although to many deceit has a negative connotation, in the play it all depends on the intentions of the trickers. The characters that misled Benedick and Beatrice, manipulating their arrogance and personality meant exclusively to riddle love and entertainment, which it certainly did †so that sort of deception was justified in the play. Ursula’s words when deceiving Beatrice, â€Å"Doth not the gentleman deserve as full as fortunate a bed as eer Beatrice shall couch upon” have a light-hearted tone and promoting blessedness is really the only motive. Don John’s villainy, however, is an entirely distinguishable matter. His schemes to dismantle Claudio and Hero’s relationship led to disastrous consequences and the public ab jection of an innocent young woman during her marriage ceremony. These wrongs could only be righted with another deception: Hero’s death. It was only with her symbolic death and resurrection that her purity could be reinstated †it would â€Å"change slander to remorse”, the friar verbalise †and her relationship with Claudio reconciled. However, deceit in non-evil circumstances isn’t hallowed unquestionably in Much Ado About Nothing, because we are made to query the fatality of some of this incessant trickery like the conversations of Beatrice and similarly Don Pedro at the masked ball. All in all, there are mixed messages about different sorts of deception in the play, and really it’s up to the individual what to take of those messages.\r\n'