First, we watched the movie Much Ado About Nothing. This was a fun movie that I really enjoyed. It was all about love and tragedy. One part of the film really emphasizes Shakespeare's feelings about love. Benedict is questioning his love for Beatrice and as he does so, he begins to list the things he would love in a woman. Basically all the things he lists have nothing to do with external beauty, they are all characteristics of internal beauty. Then, after saying all the traits he would like, Benedict adds something like, “And his hair, well, whatever God wants it to be.” This is a clear indicator that Benedick was not too concerned about the external beauty of the woman he wanted to fall in love with. We also looked at other sonnets written by Shakespeare. In his sonnet, Let me not the marriage of true minds, Shakespeare talks about how strong and lasting love can be and how it leads so many people. He states that if the love between two people is true, it will last forever. Then he goes so far as to say if he is proven wrong, then he takes back everything he said and that no man has ever truly loved before. This is a powerful line that rings a lot
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