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GCSE English Literature · key term
Tricking someone into believing something false; in this play, staged conversations persuade Beatrice and Benedick that each is loved by the other.
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Paper 1
Tricking someone into accepting a false belief, as when Benedick is persuaded that Beatrice secretly loves him.
Revise: Act 2Don Pedro's scheme succeeds immediately in changing Benedick's attitude, although Beatrice's corresponding gulling belongs to Act 3.
A trick that makes someone believe something false. In the play, staged conversations persuade Beatrice and Benedick that each is loved by the other.
Link form to meaning: compare the verse of Beatrice’s gulling with Benedick’s prose, and explain how Beatrice’s rhyme shapes her response.
Treat the soliloquies before and after the gulling as a structural pair. Explain what the audience knows that Benedick does not.
Track Hero across the play rather than describing her only as a victim: include her wit, her direction of the gulling scene and her defence of her innocence.
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The tricking of someone into believing a false story; in Much Ado About Nothing, staged overhearing persuades Benedick that Beatrice loves him.
Tricking someone into believing something false, as happens when Beatrice and Benedick overhear staged conversations.
A trick that makes someone accept a false story; in this play, the staged conversations that Beatrice and Benedick overhear.
Paper 1
The act of tricking someone into believing a false story.
Revise: Act 2Placing Borachio's plan between Don Pedro's matchmaking proposal and Benedick's gulling also sets destructive and apparently helpful deception side by side.
A trick that makes someone believe something false; Beatrice’s friends gull her through a staged conversation.
A trick that deceives someone. In Much Ado About Nothing, staged conversations persuade Benedick and Beatrice that each is loved by the other.
A trick that makes someone accept a false story; in Much Ado About Nothing, staged conversations persuade Beatrice and Benedick that the other loves them.
Tricking someone into believing something false.
The deliberate tricking of someone into becoming a gull: a person easily deceived.
Paper 2
The deliberate tricking of someone into believing a false story.
Tricking someone into believing something. Benedick's friends stage a conversation for him to overhear about Beatrice's supposed love.
Component 1
The act of tricking someone into accepting a false belief. Benedick’s friends gull him by staging a conversation about Beatrice’s supposed love.
Tricking someone into believing something false; Beatrice is gulled through a conversation staged for her to overhear.
The tricking of someone into believing a falsehood. In Much Ado About Nothing, staged conversations persuade Benedick and Beatrice that each is loved by the other.
Tricking someone into believing something false, as Hero and Ursula do when Beatrice overhears their staged conversation.
Tricking someone into accepting a false belief; in Much Ado About Nothing, the staged conversations that persuade Benedick and Beatrice that each is loved by the other.
A trick that makes someone believe something false; in Much Ado About Nothing, staged conversations persuade Beatrice and Benedick that the other loves them.
The deliberate deception of someone into becoming a fool or victim of a trick.
Tricking someone into believing something false; in Twelfth Night, the deception of Malvolio through Maria’s forged letter.
Deceiving someone into becoming a fool or a target of ridicule.
The act of deceiving someone into making a fool of themselves; Maria’s forged letter brings about the gulling of Malvolio.
The deceiving of someone into behaving foolishly; in Act 2, Maria's forged letter persuades Malvolio that Olivia loves him.
The deception of someone into believing a false story, often by exploiting what they already want to believe.
