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Beatrice In William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

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The character that I received from the quiz was Beatrice from Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing. This play takes place in Italy and centers around the characters Leonato, Hero, his daughter, and Beatrice, his niece. Leonato welcomes home soldiers from a war whose names are Claudio, Benedick, and Don Jon. After the soldiers return, Claudio falls in love with Hero and Benedick and Beatrice insult each other throughout the play. Many of the characters believe that they should stop arguing and fall in love. Then Don Jon has his companion Borachio make love to Margaret, who is Hero’s serving woman, at Hero’s window at night. Claudio sees it happening and thinks that Hero has been unfaithful so he humiliates her by accusing her of lechery on the day of their wedding. Hero’s family pretends that she died suddenly of shock and to hide her so they can try to show her innocence. After this happens, Benedick and Beatrice finally confess their love.. A night watchmen hears Borachio bragging about his crime and everyone finds out that Hero is innocent and Claudio is saddened by her death. Hero’s father, Leonato, makes Claudio marry his niece and then Hero reveals herself as the masked woman and Claudio becomes joyous. Benedick asks Beatrice to marry him and she happily agrees. The play ends with them all dancing before the celebration of their weddings. …show more content…

It appears that she is a supporting actress to the play. Along with Benedick, she adds comedic relief with the use of puns and the ability to mock other

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Do you also think that Benedick is Claudio’s foil? In the play: “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, a villain named Don John tricked Claudio by making him believe that Hero have been cheating on him which resulted in Claudio getting mad and ruining his and Hero’s wedding, accusing Hero that she was being unfaithful. After that, Hero faked her death and one of Don John’s minions admitted that he was paid to make Claudio believed things about Hero that are not true; Claudio married who was supposed to be Hero’s cousin without knowing that it was Hero that he was married to which surprised him and made him happy when it was revealed that it was Hero that he was married to. In this story, I do believe that Benedick serves as Claudio’s

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Later, Beatrice said, “Kill Claudio, you kill me to deny it. Farewell” (Shakespeare 74). Instead of asking Leonato to protect Hero with telling the truth, she asked Benedick to kill Claudio. This was a much more enraged thing to say to save her cousin. These quotes show that Beatrice and Hero are foils because in the same situation, Hero tries to get revenge by being truthful and getting help from her dad, but Beatrice wanted to take all of her anger out on Claudio by killing

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Hero had chosen to accept Claudio’s proposal and claimed to have fallen in love with

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Claudio, Hero and Don Pedro all realize how perfect Beatrice and Benedick are together and so they set up a plan to deceive the two of them into falling in love. Don Pedro comes up with the plan to be having Benedick eavesdropping on Don Pedro, Leonato and Claudio chatting about how much Beatrice is secretly in love with Benedick. Just as they expected , their plan goes off without a hitch. After the group is done talking and they all leave, Benedick comes out of hiding and start talking about what he just heard and realizes that he is in love with Beatrice. “I will be horribly in love wit her.”

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Instead, Don Pedro sees that he’s hiding and decides that this was the perfect time to go with his plan, so he and Claudio start talking in louder voices saying that they have just found out that Beatrice has fell in love with Benedick. We even see a line in this conversation of Benedick in shock of what he is hearing and can’t believe that this is true. “Hath she made her affection known to Benedick? “ “No, and swears she never will. That’s her torment.” “It were good that Benedick knew of it by some other, if she will not discover it.

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When Beatrice asks Benedick to duel Claudio for her, he agrees and plans to duel him. Benedick and Claudio are best friends who had fought in battle together, but the love of a woman completely changes Benedick’s allegiance from his fellow soldiers to his new love. Before falling in love with Beatrice, Benedick would have done everything possible to protect his brothers in battle. Now, love has emboldened him to make a choice that he would not have previously made. Benedick’s sacrifice of a meaningful friendship proves that he is now completely devoted to his relationship with Beatrice and is willing to do whatever necessary to preserve that relationship.

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Relationships based on love, like Benedick and Beatrice 's, have a strong foundation that will stand the test of time since they are rooted in love. Benedick and Beatrice 's relationship showed that love and friendship being involved in a relationship is both healthy and necessary. True love involves more than just the physical attraction Hero and Claudio experience. Without being able to relate to a person on an intellectual and emotional level, there 's no way the relationship will be able to overcome any problems. Despite Beatrice’s request for Benedick to challenge Claudio and Hero’s shame weighing heavily on them, their relationship still prevailed.

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The audience may understand the concept of love and romance flowing within the characters because it was to portrayed that way but the critics would argue the fact that some of the characters like Beatrice and Benedick were made to fall in love with each other through deception. As simple as the characters were, the situations arousing in the play became more complexed as scenes passed by. What led to the trouble and chaos in the play also led to the solution in the end, when Claudio and Don Pedro were deceived into thinking by Don John that Hero was unfaithful. That very same idea also solved the problem in the end when Leonato, Hero’s father, deceived Claudio by making him believe that she is dead and that it is his duty to clear Hero’s name by reading out on her tomb and marrying the said niece who looks just like Hero. Again the plotting against own is present where the said niece turns out to be Hero and she comes back to life again.

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This juxtaposes Claudio and Hero’s relationship is based on purely on physical looks, which are not always truthful. In an opposing manner, Benedick and Beatrice’s relationship was not started from a completely dishonest place. Over years they had built a relationship through passive aggressive remarks rather than physicality, thus ensuring that they would know each other at their core. Therefore in order to move the relationship along it only took light coaxing of the small truths to progress their love. For instance, in Act One Beatrice and Benedick’s “merry war” of arguments is viewed as a type of flirting instead of actual anger or annoyance towards each other (1.1.50-54).

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In addition, they questioned whether their relationship with each other is true picture of true love where Claudio and Hero love each other, as well as Benedick and Beatrice. Shakespeare’s two couples, Claudio-Hero and Benedick-Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing are two different relationships that has express the love-hate relationship within the play. The reason why the relationship between Hero and Claudio is so “perfect” is because this is what an ideal couple people want to look like. In short, Claudio and Hero’s love story is a fairytale.

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It was a set up marriage and she would just try to make the male proud. Relationships, in the modern day, are more egalitarian than they use to be. This allows Benedick and Beatrice to represent more of a modern time ideal couple, than Claudio and Hero. A great quote about relationships is “ Respect is as important as love in a relationships”

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This is shown with their views on marriage. Hero is willing to marry whoever her father asks her too and when Leonato finds out that Don Pedro seeks marriage with Hero, he encourages Hero to marry and says to Hero, “Daughter, remember what I told you. If the prince does solicit you in the kind, you know your answer” (II.i.57-58). Beatrice, however rebels completely against marriage and says “If he send me no husband; for the which blessing / I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening” (23-25).

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When Hero and Claudio relationship fell apart from a very ridiculous reason, Benedick and Beatrice stayed strong by each other side. Beatrice even though always believe in the independent life now she finally admits to Benedick that she loves him when she states, “As strange as the thing I know not. It wee as possible for me to say I loved nothing as well as you, but believe me not, and yet I lie not, I confess nothing, not I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin. ”(4,1,283-287).

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