3.5.11

"Much ado about Nothing" by William Shakespeare

Words... back... or something. The thing is that now, this is supposed to talk about... nothing! Nothing what? Oh, right. Much ado, much to do, about... no-thing. Even though the title of this story, play, movie, etc., originally by William Shakespeare, can have many meanings and connotations, like the one which has a sexual menaing, or the one where nothing (notting) means to spy someone, I will focus on the "no-thing" thing about this "nothing" play. 

What is this supposed to mean? That nothing happened in the end? That every event just happened and it was just for nothing because everything would have run its course without all the drama? Is it that Shakeaspeare considered all the muttering and love and relationships a really huge "nothing"? Maybe, but that is not up to me to interpret.  

What I think is that in the end, what counted was inside the characters, and sooner or later, it would have appeared, through one means or the others.  Beatrice and Benedick, they both loved each other so secretly, that one day, maybe, without others' "help", their love would have ocme out to surface for them and everyone to see. Claudio and Hero, well, what a pair of confused and tender-lovings! 

Maybe the end as we know it would not have ended that way if no one would have interferred. I mean, it would have ended with Claudio's death, with Don Pedro's one by his evil brother, with all the "loving couples" being together in the end, wether in life or death (as in R & J, in the case of Claudio and Hero), or nothing could have happened, just the prince and everyone else arriving to Messina, doing whatever they went to do, and bye-bye. Nothing, nothing could have happened, and nothing happened, so, there was too much doing about just nothing. 

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