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Mind Map by Sophie Koch, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Sophie Koch
over 9 years ago
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Explore the presentation of marriage in
'Much Ado About Nothing'
- Status/image
- marriage for the sake of climbing the social ladder is very common
- Claudio asks Don Pedro whether Hero is Leonato's only child
- Claudio asks Don Pedro whether Hero is Leonato's only child
- Couples marry very quickly, loving but non-married relationships are looked down upon?
- marriage for the sake of climbing the social ladder is very common
- Sought after constantly
- Marriage is the 'happy ending' in the play
- Marriage is the 'happy ending' in the play
- Role of women and men
- women like hero with a high status don't have a
choice in the matter of marriage
- women belong to fathers and then to husbands
- Marriage does not make a couple equal
- Marriage does not make a couple equal
- women belong to fathers and then to husbands
- Betarice refuses Don Pedro
- women like hero with a high status don't have a
choice in the matter of marriage
- treated very lightly
- Couples get married on a whim that they love eachother
- very spontaneous and sudden
- very spontaneous and sudden
- Weddings are not considered binding, ceremony is about singing and dancing rather than the uniting of a couple for the rest of their lives
- Vows are very short
- Vows are very short
- Couples get married on a whim that they love eachother
- Beatrice and Benedick's views of marriage
- They tease each other about marriage
- believe it is an unecessary ceremony that ties you down
- They tease each other about marriage
- Deception
- Deception (especially of a cheating wife) is the source of cuckoldry
- Even to the last lines of the play, characters tease that adultery is an ever-present possibility
- Fear of Deception drives Claudio to shame Hero at their wedding
- Deception (especially of a cheating wife) is the source of cuckoldry
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