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At the end of Much Ado About Nothing the story ends on a very happy note, but there is still a remaining cliffhanger, WHAT HAPPENED TO DON JOHN THE BASTARD? Here are some theories: 1. A happily ever after ending, Don John brings his army but it is easily crushed by the might of Don Pedro and John is then punished for his treasonous acts. 2. A tragedy. Don John brings his armies and wages a years long war against those of Don Pedro. Claudio and Benedick fight bravely trying to save their kingdom, but eventually there own bravery takes their lives. Beatrice and Hero mourn for the loss of their husbands and could commit suicide. Leonato sees his own territory annexed into that of Don John and he is immersed into a land of poverty and eventual death. Don Pedro barely wins against his brother, but stares at a kingdom of destruction and personal loss. Since the story has no epilogue it, what happens after is entirely up to imagination of the reader.

Explain why the ending of the play proves that it is a comedy, and give specific examples from the play. What would have had to happen instead were this play a tragedy? Whether the play is a tragedy or comedy can be determined by numerous characteristics, but the most simple way to tell the difference is by the ending. In a comedy the ending usually has a wedding, a new birth, the antagonist changes their ways or is punished and leaves the audience with a reminder that life is good. In a tragedy the ending is more tragic, usually with death and the opposite of a comedy. Much Ado About Nothing is a comedy by Shakespeare and is a comedy because it is a fairly lighthearted play. There are jokes inserted throughout all the lines and the ending especially proves it. The antagonist is assumed to be dealt with at the end ( pg98 line 121-128 Messenger: My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight, And brought with armed men back to Messina. Benedick: Think not on him till to-morro...

Dramatic Irony: When the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not. Dramatic Irony is extremely present in the Much Ado About Nothing. A motif in the play is deception, and the case where the reader knows who is behind the mask but the character does not occurs frequently. An example of dramatic irony is on page 20 line 80-93. Pedro is deceiving Hero and pretending to be Claudio. The audience knows whom Pedro is pretending to be, but Hero does not. The second example of dramatic irony is on page 48-49. Don John creates a plan for Claudio to see Hero being disloyal and being with another man. Claudio believes it to be true, but as the reader you know that it is simply just Borachio and Margaret.  The third example of dramatic irony is on page 22 when Beatrice and Benedick are talking at the ball. Benedick is masked and believes that his identity is unknown, but the audience and Beatrice know who he is. Beatrice then cons Benedick knowing it is him by sa...

The Prompt: We will have finished Acts I and II by the end of the week. As we know from the 5-act plot structure, we should have had an inciting incident at the end of Act I or beginning of Act II which will start off the rising action of the play. What was that inciting incident? Explain your answer and provide an example from the play (meaning a quote). The inciting incident of Much Ado About Nothing is when Claudio announces his love for Hero (Line 179-180 "In mine thine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever looked upon"). This is the inciting incident because once this is said arrangements are made for his wedding and the story is mostly around the events to this event. Don John the Bastard becomes the antagonist when, after overhearing his brother/prince is going to help Claudio , creates trouble and manipulates others for his own gain (Line 58-62 Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the glory of my overt...

For the next few weeks the blog posts will be based on Shakespeare's play, " Much Ado About Nothing." Unfortunately we are reading the Pelican Shakespeare published by Penguin Books instead of watching a movie version: There's two to choose from!: The prompt for this blogpost is: Choose a challenging passage from Act I, and  follow the action . Explain your process of following the action and then write the passage in your own words using contemporary English. The beginning of Much Ado About Nothing is the most challenging to follow the action because many of the characters are on stage and speaking. At times it becomes difficult to tell who is talking and to whom they talking too. My plan to follow the action was to pay more attention to the script and what is going on. Lines 87-111 Leonato: My niece, you will not go mad from catching Benedick. Beatrice: No, not if January were to become hot. Messenger: Don Pedro has arrived. (Don Pedro, Claudio, a...

Did the Sea of Flames really protect Marie-Laure? The Sea of Flames is a stone that is supposed to bring incredible luck and life to the holder but unfortunate events and bad luck to those they love. Whether this was true or not is really based on whether you believe in the supernatural. It could definitely seem like the stone was using it's powers as Marie-Laure had lived in building that failed to collapse and her father and great-uncle where arrested. But this was the time where being arrested was common and everyone was in fear of it. I believe that Marie-Laure survived by just being smart about how to go about things and her loved ones just happened to fall under the dark side of the Nazi regime. I think that the stone did very little to determine the events and was just a superstitious item to give hope and greed to the person who had it. When Marie-Laure dropped the stone in the water everything got back to normal, but that was just coincidence (again something that is d...

Ignorance is most likely the theme of the book. It is backed up by the blindness of the main characters Werner and Marie-Laure. Marie-Laure is actually blind and Werner is figuratively blind. Marie-Laure is able to sense her surroundings and is extremely observant, but is unable to actually see the world around her with her eyes. Werner has sight and notices that things are slightly, but fails to predict what is going on in the bigger picture. Both of these characters are curious. Marie-Laure is extremely curious about the world but is ignorant about what things actually look like, having to leave that to her imagination.  Werner is curious about his radio and how things like that works. His curiosity with this has, unbeknownst to him, put him into the heart of a great war. He fails to see the bigger picture of this and sees the pieces little by little. This theme of ignorance is also supported by the constant appearance of numbers throughout the book. For Marie-Laure, she must ...