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Much Ado About Nothing Act 5

Scene 1 

1. Antonio is comforting Leonato about his daughter's 'death.'
2. Leonato argues with Claudio and Don Pedro and they almost duel.
3. Claudio is convinced he killed her and when Benedick turns up his fears are confirmed.
4. Benedick informs them that Don Pedro has fled.
5. Benedick walks away.
6.  Dogberry and Verges enter leading Borachio and Conrade bound together.
7. The men tell Claudio and Don Pedro all that has happened. 
8. They ask Leonato for forgiveness he tells them to spread the word that Hero died honourably, for Claudio to write a poem for her grave and for him to marry his brothers daughter tomorrow, they agree to all terms. 
9. Why is Dogberry suddenly witty in this scene but dumb in others.
10. Why does Claudio so easily agree to a new marriage, out of shame? guilt? or because he just has to write a poem and gets to marry someone who looks exactly like Hero.

Scene 2

1. The scene begins with Benedick and Magaret joking around writing or preparing a speech to Beatrice and then joke about writing Magaret a sonnet.
2. Beatrice enters and confronts Benedick about not killing Claudio, Benedick confesses his love for Beatrice again but she does encourage him this time.
3. Ursula then enters and tells them that the whole thing was set up by Don John.

Scene 3

1. The scene is just the reading of Claudio's poem and Hero's 'funeral' 
2. Claudio doesn't wonder where everyone else is, would not everyone be at her funeral?

Scene 4

1. The wedding is about to begin, all women are masked.
2. Leonato brings Hero forward and Claudio is relieved to be marrying the same (looking) women.
3. Benedick and Beatrice then find out that they have been played, however when poems and letters are brought forward by their friends they realise they do love each other.
4. They decide to get married as well, however they pretend they are doing it on the others behalf.
5. At the end of the scene we learn that Don John is on his way back to Messina with armed guards, however Benedick waves it off. 
6. Benedick waves it off to possibly say Beatrice is more important than such a thing

Much Ado About Nothing Act 4

Scene 1

1. Wedding scene
2. Claudio accuses Hero of being unfaithful infront of everyone and the prince backs him up.
3. Hero is speechless and does'nt answer until asked a question, she then faints unable to cope with the accusation.
4. Once Don John, Don Pedro and Claudio leave Hero slowly recovers.
5. The friar comes up with a plan to pretend that Hero is dead to get revenge on Claudio
6. Benedick then comforts Beatrice and then reveals his love for her. She doesn't make a comment on it, neither positive about it nor negative.
7. "Kill Claudio" Beatrice comes out with, if Benedick wants to prove his love, he must kill claudio.
8. Benedick agrees to do the act. 
9. why did Hero not speak up for herself? If Beatrice were in such a situation she would definetly speak her piece, why are they so different?

Scene 2

1. Dogberry and Verges bring Borachio and Conrade before Sexton to be judged.
2. Borachio and Conrade confess to their crime and Sexton reveals the news of Hero's death and that Don John has fled.
3. Dogberry then reminds them that he is wealthy and basically 'bigs himself up' and makes a comedic speech about being called an "ass"
4. Why has shakespeare kept this scene comedic?

Much Ado About Nothing Act 3

Scene 1

1. In this scene Hero and Ursula also trick Beatrice into thinking Benedick loves Beatrice.
2. Beatrice believes them then seems to fall for him as well, does she also have feelings that never went away from when they were previously seeing each other?

This scene also has the comic and serious elements of act 2 scene 3 and is very much the same.

Scene 2

1. Don Pedro and Claudio are mocking Benedick about how he is in love and Benedick is unresponsive which is unlike him.
2. Don John then enters and says that Hero is unfaithful and not a virgin.
3. They agree to go with Don John to Hero's window later that evening and see Borachio and Magaret but it looks to be Borachio and Hero.
4. The two men agree that if she had been unfaithful then they shall disgrace her at the alter tomorrow as it's disgraceful to Claudio's pride.
5. Claudio suddenly switches in his attitude again showing his fickle nature.
6. Does this mean that Claudio didnt really have feelings for Hero? it was all about tittle and status.
7. Why does Claudio not give Hero the chance to explain?

Scene 3

1. We are introduced to Dogberry, Verges and the Watchmen.
2. Dogberry starts with infroming the watchmen what to do and basically tells them to stay out of trouble.
3. Borachio comes in drunk and tells Conrade all about the plan and how he wooed Margret outside Hero's window.
4. The watchmen hearing this arrests the two men and take them away. 
5. Dogberry seems to be especially naive and dumb adding to the comedy in a somewhat serious scence

Scene 4

1. In this scene Hero is getting ready for her wedding choosing the gown to wear,
2. When Beatrice arrives she is ill, Margret makes some jokes and about Benedick and Beatrice becomes a bit defensive. 
3. Could Beatrice's illness be another meaning of love sick.

Scene 5

1. Leonato is preparing for the wedding in this scene.
2. Dogberry and Verges try to tell him about Borachio and Conrade but never get to the point as they juust ramble about things
3. He tells them they should judge them for him.
4. There is a theme of busyness when Leonato just leaves them with a short reply, not really caring.

Much Ado About Nothing Act 2

Scene 1

1. They are having a ball and wearing masks throughout and throughout the scene they each steal each others identity - Claudio becomes Benedick and Don Pedro becomes Claudio.
2. Don John creates the plot that Don Pedro is trying to steal Hero for himself. What does Don John hope to accomplish from this?
3. Beatrice tries to get Hero to not listen to Leonato all the time
   
4. The fact that both Claudio and Benedick go to the Don Pedro could show friendship
5. Why does Beatrice have more Power.
6. Masks are a hidden identity. Could this have  foreshadowing side to the story?
7. Don John does'nt wear a mask, was he not invited?
8. When Beatrice tries to get Hero to not follow her father, could this be showing a hatred to the male dominance that was around in there time.
9. Claudio has a mood like a switch.

Many of Benedick's and Beatrice's are in jest but the saying is that there is truth in jest however Don John's motives seem to be of a more sinister kind.
The pace slows down whenever Don John is involved in a scene.
We find out that Beatrice and Benedick have previously been going out, could be significant and can explain why they have banter and could see that there is possibly real meaning behind what they say. Beatrice makes a comment about Don John giving her heartburn possibly showing the groups feelings toward Don John and also could be explaining how he feels when they feel like that towards him.

Scene 2

1. In this scene Don John and Borachio make a plan that Borachio will win over Magaret and make her dress as Hero and get Claudio to see it before the wedding to ruin it.
2. Don John shows his hatred for whatever pleases count Claudio or Don Pedro.
3. Slow paced with Don John in it again.

Scene 3

1. Benedick is confused to how a woman can change Claudio's behavior so much.
2. Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonato make their own plan to get Beatrice and Benedick together by talking about how Beatrice loves Benedick where Benedick can overhear them.
3. Benedick seems to be in love as soon as she hears that Beatrice is also in love with her. Could this be that the feelings he might of previously had with him never went away?
4. Why do the three men feel it necessary to make Beatrice and Benedick a couple.
5.  This scene is very fast and very funny however their is seriousness there to, the group is manipulating Benedick's mind just like Don John is about to do.

Much ado about Act 1

Scene 1

1. They introduce the main characters of the play.
2. Shakespeare creates the background, that they've just come back from a war.
3. Banter between Beatrice and Benedick.
4. Claudio wants Hero for his own and asks Don Pedro.
5. Beatrice seems a strong woman, which unusual for the time period.
6. Don Pedro and Claudio speak in verse together. 

Scene 2

1. We are introduced to Antonio who is the brother of Leonato.
2. Semantic field of wealth as they have attendants
3. We learn that Antonio over heard Claudio confessing his love for Hero.

Scene 3

1. We are introduced to Don John, Conrade and Borachio (the ones who plot to disrupt the events that are going on).
2. Borachio tells Don John that he too has overheard Claudio confessing his love for Hero but apart from being happy Don John decides to try and break up the couple.
3. Don john is the typical stereotype of a villain and hierarchy set with Don John being in charge of Conrade and Borachio with Borachio referring to Don John as lord.

• Does Don John just make that nobody likes him and just makes himself think that or is he victim to jealousy of his brother, as he is the bastard?
• Does Don John feel powerful? or does he just like ruining things?

Don Pedro's speeches are written in verse

Pied Piper of Hamelin

The poem is about a little town plagued by rats and then they have a turn of fortune with the pied piper but the government try to cheat him so the pied piper ends up taking the kids away.
In the beginning of Brownings Pied piper of hamelin poem he starts by setting the scene with the location and time of where the story is set instead of describing it it just gives the facts of where it is.The first stanza does have some rhyming involved but it mainly kicks off in the second stanza of the poem. Browning starts the second stanza with a minor sentence to make it bold and stand out "Rats!" he uses this to make a statement that emphasizes how much of a nuisance they are. He goes on to describe the disturbances they're causing in the town and to emphasize further how irritating they are he repeats "and" at the beginning of his sentences. In this second stanza the endings all have another ending elsewhere to rhyme with and in lines 18-19 4 verbs are used to create a rhyme within a rhyme with the repetition of the "ing" sound he also involves enjambment within it too, possibly to emphasize how they don't stop.
The third stanza the narrative tone seems to be mocking at the mayor and corporations as they seem to be incompetent
"for dolts that can't or won't determine
what's best to rid us of our vermine!"
The fact that Browning decided to exclaim it can show the anger of this person telling the story.
 In the fifth stanza, where the piper is introduced, there is a lot of imagery when it comes to talking about the piper;
"his queer long coat from heel to head
was half of yellow and half of red,
and he himself was tall and thin...."There are about 10 lines on describing how he looked and peoples reactions to him, almost the whole stanza is describing him. I think Browning does this to show how different he is in comparison to what would be considered normal and to also show how the people of the town are keeping a close eye on him as he is new around and they wouldn't want any trouble.

I think browning made the poem on purpose so that we could learn the moral which is graspable from the end which would be to not cheat someone and lie.