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Compare And Contrast Beatrice And Benedick

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“Real love isn't just a euphoric, spontaneous feeling—it's a deliberate choice—a plan to love each other…” - Seth Adam Smith. Within MAAN it’s displayed through all of the characters that everyone experiences love. Benedick and Beatrice are dismissive of love in their lives, then Hero and Claudio are embracive of it. People are always changing their mind and ideas, they’re choosing what they want to do. The characters are choosing who they want to love, or if they want to love. The feeling of Claudio's love doesn’t just fall upon him, same with Benedick. Things happened that caused them to decide that was how they felt. It is important to understand how their relationship’s work. Benedick never saw himself to love anyone, the same for Beatrice. …show more content…

Reluctantly she opens her heart to him. It might take her longer, but it happened. “If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee. To bind our loves up in a holy band.” (Shakespeare, 91). The choice that Benedick made causes Beatrice to feel this way. His choice to change caused her to feel the same, because he loved her and she wanted to love him. It’s like returning a favor. “I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.” (Shakespeare, 143). Beatrice is proclaiming her love for Benedick. Love to them now is intricate, not only that but it’s new. A new world that they’re choosing to enter together, hand in hand and walk in it. People change as life goes on and it allows others to adapt with those who change around them. The human race is susceptible to change and influence, good or bad. After benedick changed Beatrice sees it. Surprisingly so even though she is stubborn and immature she decides to do the same. Both characters were in complete control of what they wanted. It was a decision that they had to make individually. Through their individualistic development they pull each other along, into a whole new world they now get to explore.
Claudio approaches love very differently, he chooses it from the start. Claudio and Benedick may be friends but they are incredibly different. Claudio is able to embrace his ideas on love and act on

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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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Benedick impacted Beatrice decision to avoid men and love greatly as it appears through the dialogue Beatrice says. Beatrice and Benedick were arguing and lashing back and forth with each other while she says: “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man say he loves me.” (Act 1.1.104-105). This quote shows she would rather listen to a dog barking at a bird than a man saying he loves her. It is evident through passages before that Benedick and Beatrice has been in a relation.

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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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Beatrice and Benedick are equivalent to each other because they are both morphosis, for this effects their relationship because they both share something in common. Both Beatrice and Benedick are writing to each other of how they feel. Benedick-”Our handwriting gives away our hearts” Beatrice-”I won’t say no to you”. Even though they fought between each other throughout the whole play, in the end they finally admitted their love for each other. After all Benedick and Beatrice both share resemblance and differences between each

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Beatrice calls him a jester, saying that only men with no morals find him funny. She speaks badly about Benedick because her pride gets in the way of her speaking kindly about him since she is known to dislike him, and with Beatrice’s pride, she won’t change her mind about how she feels. This is especially harmful to Benedick because she is

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Because Claudio believes love is something that will come to you, he truly believed that he and Hero fell in love when they first met. Almost immediately after meeting, Claduio announces to his close friends that he is in love with Hero, and will ask for her hand in marriage. Beatrice and Benedick at first don’t believe in love, so to convince themselves that they are not in love, they make fun of and mock each other. Beatrice and Benedick are secretly in love with each other, but they do not think that their feelings are shared. This is until Beatrice overhears Hero and Ursula talking about how much Benedick loves her, and when Benedick overhears a conversation between Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato talking about Beatrice’s love for him.

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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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When one is in love, they can be hurt by the words, and actions of their special someone. For example, becoming a cuckold because of your special someone. This was something Benedick was always afraid of, as shown when says, “Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think… to bind me, or undo me, one of them -” (5.4 18-20) Much Ado About Nothing. This quote was said by him around the end of the play where he had already came into terms with his love for Beatrice, however this quote shows that even now he knows the

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What they do to trick them is they get Leonato, Claudio and Don Pedro first to speak out loud in front of Benedick about how they heard Beatrice supposedly loves him. The same was done to Beatrice, except that they had Hero and her maid speak about how Benedick supposedly loves her. After that Benedick and Beatrice begin to be infatuated with each other and become madly in love. The amusing thing is

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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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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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