Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Essay

Laura Juan

Mr. Kelley

ENG 102

10 of April

Witty

In William Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing, is a comedy play for entertaining the audience and to bring comedy for entertainment, one must be funny. Beatrice is a woman who is outspoken, witty, gullible, and a prideful character in the play. In the play, Beatrice is very amusing, and so are the others but she is unique. If, the character did not have these characteristics, the story of the play would not be entertaining. In the play, Beatrice and Benedick always engage in a witty conversation that would bring laughter to the audience. Although she has a strong character, she manages to change a little at the end of the play. Beatrice is an outspoken woman in the play. Beatrice’s

She also states that she could not tolerate being with a man who has a beard and would rather sleep in a woollen. Beatrice’s uncle, suggests that she can find a man that has no beard, but she responds a man with or without a beard is not good enough for her no matter if he is young or old. Beatrice believes she would go to hell for not being married and wants to remain single. The way she expresses her thoughts on marriage and men is strong, perhaps she and Benedick had fallen in love before, that she does not believe in marriage to be a key to happiness. Since, she is outspoken she is also seen as a strong female character who uses her voice to be heard, unlike her cousin Hero. According to Frank N. Magill, a critic of the play observes Hero as “a pure and gentle girl, extremely sensitive”, in which explains how her characteristics are different from Beatrice.

Beatrice is a witty woman. In the play, Beatrice always makes amusing remarks towards Benedick, in which Ronald R. MacDonald, a critic of “The Merry Wives of Windsor and Much Ado About Nothing”, states “we may see a man and woman protesting too much their mutual indifference, energetically resisting, and all the while bearing witness to the current of affection that is already present at the outset of the play”, in which explains how their remarks against each

Beatrice did not like how he is comparing Hero’s appearance to her uncle, so she says why does he keep talking when no one is listening to him. Since Beatrice has witty words, Benedick also decides to be the same but in a sarcastic tone he answers her by saying he is surprised that she is not dead from hearing him. Another example of Beatrice making a remark toward Benedick is when she says, “I/ had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man/ swear he loves me.” (1.1.117-19), referring to she rather not fall in love with a man who swears that he is true to her. One suggestion that Beatrice is only making funny remarks towards Benedick is when “her first words ask for news of him, and though her questions take the form of banter, she evidently finds pleasure in hearing the messenger’s commendation of Benedick’s courage and is eager to know of his doings”(Shakespeare and Margerison 23), which is why she gives him somewhat of a hard time to speak to her. Shakespeare made these two couples to have a witty personality to create a romantic comedy play that would bring laughter to the