Honour Is Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”

When we look closely at the reverie of Beatrice and benedict, we represent the problems that a rational lover has in putting aside his concept of reinforce in order to love a woman and Shakespe ar smartly contrasts this human relationship banterh our perfectistic lover Claudio, who is incapable of rejecting the re stiffions that observe places on a man. In a correspond construction we con through the relationship that the piggish Claudio has with the docile Hero that for love to flourish it must(prenominal) reject chivalric notions of honour.The social hierarchy of Messina, is a very class conscious ace and being witty is almost a full beat occupation for many of its inhabitants. Playing practical jokes and tricks upon separately other is a subtle way of maintaining the strict codes of conduct and among the most successful and benevolent of the deceptions skillful are the parallel practical jokes persisted on Beatrice and benedict in order to trick severally of the m into admitting their love for one another.In their set-back encounter, we see Beatrice and benedick using their superior intellects to ridicule separately other. Benedick warns her to keep her ladyship and she lashes back with insults around his animalism suggesting that he is so ugly that scratching his brass could not make it worse. Benedick uses his wit to shield himself from her barbs, hiding his true feelings and pretending to enrapture his bachelor existence when actually it is a apparatus for his safety. Benedick presents one face to the humans in order to be accepted by the friendship that judges him and it is this indian lodge that acknowledges his wit, but underpinning Benedicks wit is his distaste for the superficial values that Messinian society is built upon. His ironic attitude towards both himself and the field he is held captive by is apparent in his soliloquy, where he weighs up the discrepancy amongst how the world sees him and how he sees himself.The repartee between Beatrice and Benedick is sometimes blunt and crude, sometimes elaborate and self conscious. Puns, similes, metaphors, and paradoxes are all brought into play in their continual back up of mutual insults and it is this aggressive verbal battle which pushes Beatrice and Benedick to the foreground of the play. Being in love is a game for fools and Benedick vows to never be such a fool. Benedick persuades himself that by staying aside from Beatrice and denying himself any notions of marriage, he is a confirmed misogymist, that he is the stronger individual and has control over his life or else of living for another human being and risking fair a hopelessly in love lover. Benedick views women in society as somehow predatory, wanting to capture a man and contain him in marriage, only to torture him with subsequent betrayal. However when approach with a woman such as Beatrice, who proclaims herself as contemptuous of marriage and for the same reasons, Benedicks ro le begins to fall apart, which is where Benedick faces the biggest battle in his life, as he fights to hold on to his notions of manful honour. But no matter how hard he tries he gougenot frame for himself a separate nomenclature of love and as a result he and Beatrice construct a loving relationship which is as much of a sparring match as their enmity, once Benedick gives up his notions of male honour.In stark contrast to Benedick and Beatrice, Shakespeares ideal lovers, Claudio and Hero, believe they are in love with from to to each one one one other, but we quickly see that when put to the prove this love is superficial and lacks the true acknowledgement of each others individuality needed to obligate it. Their love for each other, although seemingly sincere, dissipates at the first obstacle and doubt sees one quick to saddle the other of adultery. For Beatrice and Benedick however, their jokes are the means whereby they can resist the kind of love-relationship exemplifi ed by Hero and Claudio. In the end the happy-ending which sees Hero married off to Claudio is one fraught with contradictions, for this conventional relationship, founded as it is on wild-eyed love, which they exemplify, has been severely satirised by Shakespeare.By presenting the relationship between Beatrice and Benedick as real and not idealistic, we see the fragility of an idealised, romantic love such as the one Claudio has with Hero and its tendency to collapse into abhor and disgust becomes all too apparent. Appropriately the play ends not with Claudio and Hero whose strict adherence to an rigid code of honour temporarily fragments their relationship, but with Beatrice and Benedick who overcome both the male code of honour and societys expectations to love and accept each other for their individual selves. There is a relationship built on mutual trust, respect and word sense and proof that Love must be veracious to be sustained.