In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, love is an important and consistent topic. The theme of love advances throughout the play as the central characters go through the stages of their relationships. Love is important because, from an early age, people experience love as a natural part of life. People want to know what love is. How do I get it and how does it feel? It's something you anticipate and expect, just like experiencing a first kiss or saying the words "I love you" for the first time. Love is made up of many different emotions: joy, pain, compassion, understanding, longing, and tears. All these emotions are experienced throughout the show by the main relationships: Hero and Claudio and Beatrice and Benedick. Through the ups and downs in the relationships between Hero, Claudio, Benedick, and Beatrice, Shakespeare uses the idea of ​​love to show us how important trust and loyalty are in any relationship by creating mistrust. An important part of love is trust because it is the foundation. Trust is earned by demonstrating loyalty over time. Having it makes you feel secure in a relationship and provides the opportunity for a person to become vulnerable and share emotions, feelings, and memories without being taken advantage of. The visual map that was presented illustrates how hurt Claudio is when he discovers that Hero is not trustworthy. Claudio shows his pain and longing for Hero in the tears of his eyes, while his anger is shown by the act of turning his back on her. When Hero faints she shows her sadness and confusion at all the distrust and pressure she receives from her father, Leonato, and her husband. With arms outstretched, Hero conveys that s......center of paper......ally. Love brings out intense emotions and situations that reveal a lot about a character and their behavior. Shakespeare uses love to show that it does not mean you have to change your personality, however, it means accepting another person for who they are, regardless of the thoughts and opinions of others. Love is so vital to the show because it shows us that people need trust, loyalty, commitment, chemistry, forgiveness, patience, kindness and honesty to have the right love. Once a person has these things, they just have to work to find love and work even harder to keep it. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. Much ado about nothing. Ed. Paul Werstine, Barbara A. Mowat and Gail Kern. Shepherd. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperback, 1995. Print."Writing in the Disciplines: English." Writing in the disciplines: English. Np, nd Web. January 16. 2014.