“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.”- Benjamin Franklin. The play, Much Ado About Nothing was written in 1598 by William Shakespeare, an English playwright. This play demonstrates how deception can get you into problems that are hard to get out of. For instance, this play is about how trying to help someone by deceiving them, but they ended up with a bigger problem than there already was. The poem “Sigh no More” in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” mainly highlights deception, about how men have deceived women, leaving them upset, the play has deception when convincing two people that they love each other.
“Sigh no More,” a poem by William Shakespeare contains many hidden literary devices and meanings. Balbsar, the man who sings the poem, talks about how
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Starting from the first line of this poem, “sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more.” This first line doesn’t make any sense, but the next line “men were deceivers ever” makes it more clear. The first line is telling ladies to not cry anymore because men have deceived and taken advantage of them. “One foot in sea, and one on shore,” is a juxtaposition, for not being fully committed in a relationship, something that both men and women do, but in this case, the man is not being loyal to his relationship. Shakespeare's writing, “To One thing is consistent never,” is trying to comfort a woman who has been deceived and saying that relationships will never be continuous. Lines 5 through 10, “ then sign up so, but let them go, and you'll be blithe and Bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe into hey nonny, nonny. Sing no more ditties, sing no more,” Balthasar is explaining how women should try to stay happy even though the men that they have been dating deceived them and cheated. Blithe and bonny are older English terms for being happy and carefree, but how can a woman who was just deceived stay happy and carefree? When Balthasar was singing this