Create a 9 page essay paper that discusses Much Ado About Nothing.Download file to see previous pages... A look at some other works of Shakespeare may also be relevant to this study. These include pla

Create a 9 page essay paper that discusses Much Ado About Nothing.

A look at some other works of Shakespeare may also be relevant to this study. These include plays in which cross-dressing and expressions of female sexuality are a part. Social attitudes towards these issues and the contemporary literary representations of them had a lot to do with the manner in which Shakespeare treated his female characters. This paper shall also discuss the aspect of Elizabethan drama where a boy was required to play the role of woman and what implications this had for the theatrical aspect of the depiction of marriage. This shall be explored in relation to the larger role that women are shown to play in the Elizabethan society, in the play. The relationship between Beatrice and Benedick is one of the main attractions of the play. The chemistry that these characters share has been the basis for interest in the play over a long period of time. Nevertheless, their relationship does not start on a very pleasant note, with both parties choosing to talk of marriage as an unnecessary encumbrance. This is not the way in which the society of the time viewed marriage. During Elizabethan times, marriage was considered, officially, to be the natural culmination of the youth of people. Any form of revolt, in the context of a play, would finally end in the reluctant couple bowing down to their own love for another person and conforming to the dictates of the society. While there was a certain kind of questioning of the institution of marriage, there was also an acceptance of the fact that it was the method that was acceptable to religion and society as the one for procreation. It was thus, the method that was employed to extend the lines of aristocratic families and also to create more peasants to work the fields for the aristocracy and the Crown. In this context, it is interesting to see a couple that works against the economic ethos of the time. They are however, finally, by the end of the play, made to conform to the stereotypes of the time. The aspect of the boy playing the role of the women is important in this respect. In the Elizabethan times, young men who were just on the verge of attaining manhood and had voices that were quite similar to those of women were considered to be attractive by both men and women. This form of attraction that men felt for people of their own sex was considered to be detrimental to the way society was organized. It would introduce an element of sexuality that was not for the sole purpose of sexuality and opened up debates about the role of sexuality in a country that was ruled by a monarch who was not married and was widely referred to as the virgin queen. By employing boys to play the role of women who were protesting the idea and institution of marriage, Shakespeare brings together two marginalized sections of the society and makes them critique it. The underlying message of the two men being together at the end of the play as a part of a married couple breaks conventional stereotypes, only when it is combined with the reluctance that Beatrice displays towards the institution of marriage as it existed in the days of Shakespeare. Her reluctance gives her a certain amount of power that she is able to employ even after she gives in to her own feelings of love.