Sociology Essays

India is known for being by far the largest democracy in the world, with almost 600 million voters. India’s democratic political system is a legacy of British colonialism (for instance their parliamentary government, or the First Past the Post electoral system), which ended in 1947. The British introduced self-government to …

Hailed by B. R Nanda as the ‘Father of the Nation,’1 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi rose from political obscurity to challenge and help secure India’s independence from the British Empire in 1947. As a character with seemingly so much influence in politics after 1920 up until his death in 1948, Gandhi …

William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a play based upon the drama created by a series of deliberate deceptions between the central characters; some benevolent, others malevolent. The play opens with the return of Don Pedro of Arragon, his “bastard” brother Don John and courtiers Claudio and Benedict to …

In the play ‘Much ado About Nothing’, Shakespeare uses the power of men to surprise the audience in the wedding scene and to give the play an unexpected twist. When Don John took Claudio and Don Pedro to the outside of Hero’s balcony, Claudio believed Don Johns words because he …

Shakespeare presents the failings and corruption of Messina society in a number of ways throughout the play. The audience is firstly introduced to a witty, aristocratic and polite society where Shakespeare’s use of imagery characterises a civilised place of well-being. However, as the play progresses we begin to feel that …

The conversation held between Beatrice and Benedict is shocking because it is contradictory to the persona they both have been presenting since the start of the play. Even before Benedict has arrived in Messina, Beatrice is insulting him to the messenger. She asks the messenger things about Benedict like: ‘how …

Shakespeare clearly shows the audience from the beginning of the play that Hero and Claudio love each other. Both characters play quite important parts in the play, but their characters are quite simple and plain. Beatrice and Benedick, however, are both strong, outspoken characters that appeal more to the audience, …

Much Ado About Nothing is a short play by Shakespeare, which has comedy, romance, suspense and a lot of drama twisted into several hundred lines of verse. The ending is happy, however, and little has changed albeit two marriages. The play is important, not because of its subject matter, but …

I sat in a chair, apprehensively facing an old friend. It had been such a tiresome and exasperating day, yet the only way I would receive counsel from him was to re-tell the occasion. I commenced my account. The day started off well; the sun was shining triumphantly over the …

In Much Ado About Nothing, the young lovers Claudio and Hero are pulled apart by the devastating forces of malicious rumours. After having been denounced as a ‘common stale’ at her own wedding in IV:i, Hero collapses and is taken for dead. Claudio, upon learning that Hero was never guilty …