Love is a very powerful and important emotion in the world. ... Therefore love can relate to people and the extent of love is tested constantly in life today as well as in Much Ado About Nothing. ... Reason being that love is such an important part of life and so many different types of emotions can be caused by the events that occur in love. Much ado about nothing proves that many emotions can follow from many different forms of love because the other themes featured revolve around this theme of love even though the play is not a typical love story. ... The love that grows among the two e...

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• Grade Level: High School

Proposing a test of his daughters' adoration, King Lear asks them each to describe how much they truly love him. ... In response to her father's question of love, she immediately delights him: Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty; Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare; No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor... Rather than sink to their level by professing her true love in their father's petty game, Cordelia refuses to speak. ... This refusal to participate in the King'...

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Love is not encouraged, rather promiscuity is socially acceptable in the World State, "everyone belongs to everyone else."" ... Love, death, family, and passion are major themes in his plays, every one of these removed from the minds of the World State citizens. ... When grown in test tubes and bottles until "decanted-, then raised by various teachers in the Center London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, families come to be thought of as primitive and unhygienic, preventing people of this society from identifying a major theme of almost every Shakespearean play. Love is also devalued; seein...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lear's daughters Gonerill and Regan sabotage the power structure of the monarchy by falsely professing their love for their father in order to gain power and inheritance. ... Lear's blindness due to his power is emphasised when he fails to see through the superficial and hyperbolic words of Gonerill when she says, "I love you more than eyesight, space and liberty-, yet is angered when Cordelia states "I love you according to my bond, no more, no less-. ... This is reinforced by using the love test scene of the play as an example, proposing that this scene is a variant of the wedding ...

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When looking back at one's life, it seems as though everyone always looks to the points in life where things went wrong, for example, cheating on a girlfriend, failing a test, getting in a huge fight with family. ... To fall in love is what she fear'd to look on! ... He no longer believes in the true love he thought he had shared with Desdemona, which drives him to the point of plotting to murder her. ...

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Angelo gains instant power because the Duke transfers his power over to Angelo so that he could test his servants" loyalty. ... "So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons, Come all to help him, and so stop the air By which he should revive: and even so The general, subject to a well-wish"d king, Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love Must needs appear offence." ... Shakespeare believes that fear is the greatest evil and that fear drives out love as love drives out fear. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His egotism in dividing up his kingdom according to which daughters praise him the most leads to the disownment of the one daughter and servant who truly care for him, and the revelation that Regan and Goneril's profession of love for him was merely empty praise. ... He realizes that Goneril and Regan did not love him, but Goneril did. ... After Gloucester is blinded, Edgar's philosophy is tested even more, and he no longer is certain that he will attain happiness again, but his will and resolve is strengthened. ...

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The only reason that Othello married her was because she showed him loyalty and love. ... Best shown by Cassio, reputation can be something created through the test of time, and also destroyed in the matter of a few words. ...

• Word Count: 1313
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• Grade Level: High School