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1. The two friends, Claudio and Benedick, are in love with the two main female characters.

               Claudio: The lord of Flurence, quickly falls in love with the young and beautiful Hero, daughter of Leonato. Hero is a kind, and lovely young woman who also without questions falls for Claudio. The story of their love would be beautiful if Claudio would not have such a suspicious nature which quickly leads him to believe false rumors about Hero. They were supposed to get married but on the day of their wedding Claudio embarrasses Hero in front of friends and family, falsely accusing her of cheating. In the end all conflict gets resolved and Hero and Claudio get married.

           Benedick: The willful lord of Padua, the man who vows he will never get married. Of course in the course of time that changed. Benedick was engaged in a competition of who can insult and outsmart one another with Beatrice. All their hate towards each other later turns out is actually love. Neither wants to admit their love at first, but in the end after long arguments and talks, they do show their love for each other and they also get married.

             What the two men have in common: They both love main female characters of the story, who are cousins by the way. Other then this, they really do not have much common in their love story.

            I believe that Benedick feels love more deeply and sincerely because if Claudio would really truly love Hero as much as he says he does then he either wouldn't believe the false rumors he's been told or he would talk to Hero about it the night he hears the rumors rather then embarrassing and humiliating Hero in front of family and friends. I really think that he could of settled this problem by talking to her in private and that would of saved a lot of trouble that was to come. If I would have to choose who I think is more likeable or attractive I would probably go with Benedick because I truly don't think Claudio had to act the way he did and I think what he did was so wrong that they shouldn't of gotten married at the end with Hero. If Claudio really loved her that much he would believe her rather then what other people tell him. Benedick on the other hand was ready to kill his best friend if he really had to just for Beatrice, if thats what she really wanted.

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Shakespeare-Much Ado About Nothing

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1.p 14, #1

Benedick, the willful Lord of Padua is a man who is masking his fear of commitment with engaging in a competition with Beatrice to outsmart out insult the other, but in the meantime even Benedicks friends notice that he has deeper feelings for her. He obviously has deeper feelings for her as it turns out in later chapters when he confesses that he loves her.

2.p. 42, #1

I think that Beatrice and Benedick are perfect for each other because all the hate they are showing in the beginning is really because they love each other they just don't know what the other really feels so all they show is hate which changes later on in the story. Don Pedro asks if Beatrice will marry him but she won't accept which of course offends Don Pedro. Leonanto's response is that if they were married for a week they would talk themselves mad but I think they will be just fine. After finding out their love for each other, now they are two completely different people towards each other.

3.p.25, #4

Benedick is a soilder who is apparently carfee and immune to love but he is not. At first unknowlingly he falls in love with Beatrice and later he is sure of it and says that he is. In the inside he really thinks that Beatrice is a pretty woman and he really falls in love with her later in the play.

1- About diary written in the evening of Act 1

Benedick is really pretending to be carefree and immune to love because nobody can really be immune to it. He thinks that all marriage is coping with one another and its just hard work and one must be committed to it and he does not want that. He also stereotyes women, that they are all worthless especially Beatrice.

2- Before Benedick went away to war

Before the war Benedick thinks thats its foolish to fall in love with a women beause he is going away for the war anyway. He thinks that it's no use to make promises to women or them to you when you no one even knows when you'll be back from the war or if you'll be back at all.

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       1. Shakespeare In Love is a romantic comedy made in 1998. The movie is about William Shakespeare who is struggling with his newest work at the time called "Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter" which later changes into "Romeo and Juliet" when young Shakespeare falls in love with the wealthy Viola who was just sold by her father to Lord Wessex who she was to marry. 

        William Shakespeare was a young writer in London during the Elizabethan age who wrote "Romeo and Juliet" in the summer of 1593. People at that time were not allowed to wear what they wanted regardless of how wealthy they were, by law they had to wear clothing according to their position, this law was called Sumptuary Laws. William was not different from everybody else, he was not a wealthy man he was actually poor just as it shows in the movie. He wanted money even before he started writing his play. He did not dress in fancy clothes. At that time he was not considered a great writer unlike Christopher Marlowe who was already considered a successful writer, William was  just a poor  with a passion for writing who eventually became more recognized.

         2. The three facts in "Shakespeare's World" that stood out for me were: 1- bubonic plague which rapidly spread throughout London and was almost always lethal. To try to stop the spreading London ordered that anyone infected should be locked into their homes for a month so that the streets can be kept clean. The way this could of affected Shakespeare's writing was that it might of made him write sad plays since there was not much to be happy about with so many dieing. 2- The English divided the population into four classes rather then the three major ones we have today, which is rich, middle class, and poor. They had the "richer" or "wiser" or "better" and the rest was "poorer", "ruder" and "meaner". This could of affected his work because he was not considered a rich man, he was actually quite  poor and for this he got paid less for his plays which made him write plays he might of not even really want to but had to for the money. 3-English women had more freedom than women elsewhere in the world at that time. For example they could go to the theater and just walk on the streets without having a man by her side. Having women to be more free then elsewhere might of helped him because he had more opportunities to talk or I guess even be with women. Being around or with women can help a writer write a better romantic play.

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