Much Ado About Nothing Love StoryShakespeare My first impression of Much Ado About Nothing is that it would be a love story. Although it is classified as a Shakespearean comedy, I found the many "funny" parts of the play to be foggy and required you to reread the scene several times before understanding them. But then again, I had to reread the whole scene multiple times to understand anything. All the characters in Much Ado About Nothing seemed to develop their own personalities from the first scene. It also helped that I saw the movie version of Much Ado About Nothing before reading the play so that I could almost have an idea in my head of what each character would look like. As the characters had their own personalities, so did the two romantic relationships in the play. Benedick and Beatrice seemed to hate each other so much from the beginning of the play that as the play continued, it almost seemed as if the two had come full circle in their relationship. But their relationship might not have changed for the better without the help of Claudio, Don Pedro, Leonato, Ursula or Hero. Claudio and Hero's relationship seemed much more conventional in the way they came together. Claudio saw Hero for the first time and immediately fell in love with her, while Hero stood there and took orders from his father, Leonato. It wasn't until Don John devised his deception to keep Claudio and Hero apart that I felt the relationship was in trouble, but even then I felt there was hope. In act 4, scene 1, when Claudio denounces his plan to marry Hero, I believed that the brother played the most important role. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the brother played one of the most