Marriage and love - Much Ado About Northing

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  • Love and marriage
    • Marriage were rarely about love.
      • Marriages were often arranged to bring financial or social benefit to both families.
        • Claudio to start with does not Hero as his honour is more important them his feeling's.
        • Women have to go along with what their parents say.
    • Choosing a suitable partner was a serious business
      • People are expected to get married.
      • Leonato warns Beatrice "thou wilt never get thee a husband" unless she changes her behaviour.
      • Claudio feels that "time goes on crutches" until he can marry Hero.
    • Characters enjoy playing Cupid.
      • Don Pedro woos Hero for Claudio and suggests a plan to unite Benedick and Beatrice.
      • Hero tricks Beatrice into falling for Benedick.
      • Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonato get Benedick to fall for Beatrice.
      • Benedick and Beatrice   relationship is built on deception.
    • Noble men followed the courtly love tradition
      • A courtly love sends gifts to his love. Claudio sends perfumed gloves to Hero.
      • Claudio and Hero speck in verse as Claudio loves to keep praising Hero.
      • Shakespeare does not like courtly love as he presents it as two people going through the motions.
    • Benedick and Beatrice reject courtly love traditions
      • They insult each other wittily, usually in prose.
      • Their love seems more real than Claudio and Hero's.
      • Benedick and Beatrice are not impressed in courtly love.
      • Beatrice wants a man to prove himself and Benedick wants to prove his love by killing Claudio.
      • Benedick shaves and wear perfume to impress Beatrice.
      • They aren't completely opposed to love they just do it the way they want to.
    • Love makes characters are differently
      • Claudio replaces his "war thoughts" with "soft and delicate desires"
      • Benedick thinks someone in love is a "fool" but he changes his mind and thinks it is "horrible to be in love."
      • Benedick has a "toothache" and Beatrice is "sick" which shows that they are in love.
        • This has a comic effect and mocks traditional lovers.

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