Relationships In Much Ado About Nothing

The play Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy written by William Shakespeare between 1598 and 1599. Humor is explored throughout the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick as well as the relationship between Hero and Claudio. Shakespeare not only uses the relationships to explore humor, but he also uses the Elizabethan gender roles, language, and rhetoric by portraying them in a stereotypical manner, such as in insults because they are prominent themes of the play.

The soldiers have just come into Leonato's house from the war. This is the time when Beatrice keeps on insulting Benedick and when Hero falls in love with Claudio on their return to Messina.

Insults are used very widely in the play and are in every single one of the

Women in the Elizabethan Era were expected to do almost nothing but clean their house, cook, give birth and be a good, innocent and a pure mother and wife. It was expected for a woman to produce offspring every two years. It was praised upon if a woman if she has more children than she was “supposed” to have. They had to give birth every two years, and have as many children as possible.Sadly, one of the main reasons that it was so honoured was that babies died in infancy or at an early age, which is due to the poor health and hygiene conditions. Which is why it was extremely hard to have a large number of children and it was looked at as more than just an “achievement” but more of a”proud” feeling and women when achieved that, finally felt that they had at least something that they are capable of and accepted by society.On the other hand, if the woman was not able to give birth, she was prosecuted for being a witch and was highly disdained by the community and society at that time.Since it was frowned upon, there had to be a punishment for a woman who could not give birth.They punishments are either hanged at the Gallows Hill or “The Witches Cradle” which the accused “witch” was put inside of a sack and tied upside down hanging from a tree. Where the people that accused the woman, would swing the “witches” back and forth.They did not study sciences and they simply thought it was nonsense that a