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Benedick In William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

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when leonato arrived at the church with the 2 masked ladies he and the ladys had poetic justice and happy endings on there minds. as soon as leonato entered the sanctuary benedick summon the courage to ask him for beatrices hand in marriage. leonatoa typical chauvinist of the day agrees without evenconsulting the lady in question or farther questioning benedick. Claudio and don pedro whom among them had noticed benedicks distress teased him about abandoning his vows of permanent bachelorhood good day benedick said don pedro why whats the matter with you you have a face full of storm and cloudiness. Ah benedick is the noble beast in love a bull whos horn is about to be cliped taunted claudio. You said youd never marry or fall in love. You should of stuck to your vows and not of let this lady effect your better judgement. You mya friend are a …show more content…

He brought them out were the rest of the crowd waited with there apprehension hidden good since men of those times are not really allowed too show much emotion. Claudion had sworn to blindly marry the bride of Leonatos choice and he stood up to do so The massked lady lay her hand in Claudios . only after the ceremony had begun did hero reveal her face. Another hero exclaimed Claudio whom was not always a quick wit. No a hero from the dead laughed beatrice as she removed her mask too. Her and me have been hiding. Well the end of this tale was as follows claudio married hero that for some strange reason still wanted the jerk bendick and beatrice married as well and never stoped baiting each other everyone revealed there part in the plot to get benedick and beatrice together and all ended good for lovers romances. As for evel mendacious do john he was banished from the country for no less than 20 years. We dont know if borachio ended up with poor margaret heros lady in waiting but for margarets sake we hope not. Ah love certainly is a giddy think with many twists and this absolutely marks the end of this

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This can be shown by examples from the play. An example is in Act IV scene i when Beatrice had an issue and Benedick confronted her on it. They eventually came up with a resolution. Hero and Claudio rarely communicated in the play, if at all.

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While they are conversing, Beatrice plainly states that she wants Benedick to “kill Claudio...a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured [her] kinswoman (Shakespeare 74-75).” Beatrice makes very bold actions, and she is not afraid of doing so. This shows how Beatrice and Hero are foils of each other because Hero takes actions that are safe and pleasing to others, while Beatrice does what she wants and doesn’t care about what others think of her actions. Another example of this occurs during the Masquerade Ball. Beatrice talks with Don Pedro and is quoted to have said, “My cousin tells him in his ear that he is in her heart (Shakespeare 27).”

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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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Hero and Beatrice are about as opposite as night and day. The similarity is that both are witty and tease each other in their own way. We first see Hero’s wit in the first scene when Beatrice makes a pun implying to Benedick’s fighting

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(I, I, Pg.4). Benedick tries to say that Beatrice is the only lady that he doesn’t love. He tries to hide the way he feels. At the party Benedick and Beatrice seem to find their way to each other, and Benedick doesn’t know that Beatrice knows that it is him, and she starts to talk about him, “ Beat. Why, he is the prince’s jester: a very dull fool; only his gift is in devising impossible slanders: none but libertines delight in him; and the commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany; for he both pleases men and angers them, and then they laugh at him and beat him.

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It is a favorable notion that Claudio is Don John`s puppet. In addition, Claudio vowed that he would humiliate Hero during the wedding. He could have taken a different approach in order to prevent the failure of his wedding. For instance, he could have simply asked Hero whom she was with, or he could have asked Hero if what he saw was true. Instead, he humiliated Hero at their wedding.

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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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Joking and teasing are abundant in male friendships. The prank goes so far as to include Hero and a servant to thicken the ruse, pulling Beatrice into the mix by allowing her to ‘overhear’ a conversation about how mad Benedict is for her. It is elaborately simple and the men enjoy watching the two make doe eyes at each other from the sidelines, waiting for the cataclysmic collision that never comes. Don Pedro and Claudio call Benedict to come and spend time with them after finding out that Hero is dead and brushing her father off as a decrepit old man when he comes to defend her honor. Rather than lifting their spirits, as they had hoped he would, Benedict renounces them as friends and offers to duel them in place of Leonarto.

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To Don Pedro’s dismay, Beatrice declines his proposal. Instead of reacting resentfully, Don Pedro responds with, “Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you, for out o' question you were born in a merry hour” (II, i, 280-283). Responding in a civil manner to her rejection shows that Don Pedro respects Beatrice and wants her to be happy even if that’s not with him. Reacting this way also shows Don Pedro’s sacrificial love. Don Pedro is characterized as a very sensible man and would never make rash decisions without careful consideration.

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Hero also lied and stated “ Benedick is in love with Beatrice… How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured” (3.1.21-22,63). Hero is trying to get beatrice to change her point view on love and marriage by stating that benedick is in love with Beatrice and is complimenting of how smart, highly ideal and handsome Benedick is. When she heard this she said, “And Benedick love on, I will requite thee” (3.1.117). Meaning that keep loving her and that she will return the love. These quotes are important because they were both fooled by Hero, Leonato, Prince and Claudio by using the same method of trick of lying that they both love each other in order for them to actually fall in

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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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Don John, the antagonist hates his brother Don Pedro and Claudio is a close friend of Don Pedro, so Don John sets out to cause trouble between their relationship. Because Claudio is too shy to ask Hero

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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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