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Stereotypes In Much Ado About Nothing

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Stereotypes Hold back the Truth We live in a world where humans judge one another based on things like their skin color, gender, and race resulting in people being deceived because they only judge others based on the things they can see. In the real world, just because a girl dresses in “boy clothes” people say “because of the way she dresses she must play sports and hate makeup”, which in fact could be the complete opposite of the truth. Everyday people label each other based on stereotypes, and these stereotypes prevent people from learning the truth about one another. In both Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare and Rashōmon directed by Akira Kurosawa the storylines shows how one can be deceived by how they judge other …show more content…

Now if you are a maid, answer to this.
Hero: “I talked with no man at that hour, my lord.”
Don Pedro: “why, then are you no maiden” (4.1 82-86).
If that was not humiliating enough for Hero, her father also truly believes she lost her virginity to Claudio. Leonato and everyone else eventually finds out the truth and that Hero was actually truthful and did not lose her virginity to Claudio. Perceiving what is the actual truth based on a feeling deceived a father of believing his daughter based on the only element that she is a female and has never broken his trust before.
Wealth is seen as a powerful trait, and based on financial status, people stereotype the type of person you must be. Tajomaru in Rashōmon, sees the Samurai as weak and unable to fight because he is rich. Shown in the movie, Tajomaru turns his back several times during his fight between himself and the Samurai; this alludes to him seeing his opponent as being an easy fight since he is well-off and can have other people do all of his heavy work. His perception of the Samurai depending on whose story one believe describes the fight being equal, but eventually after a long hard battle Tajomaru defeats his opponent. Contrasting the stereotype in Much Ado about Nothing, Leonato believes that Dogberry is unwise because he is a poor commoner who works as a watch for a living. Despite Leonato’s belief that Dogberry is less than him because he has very little money, he ends up saving his daughter. Dogberry

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