Two people can have a relationship that can go in many different directions.They can either love or hate each other. In the Play Much Ado About Nothing two characters specifically Beatrice and Benedick have a relationship that gets off to a rough beginning and then there relationship throughout gets an entirely different turn. Both of their traits often cause some tension between the two and they often argue as well even when they have similar ones. Benedick is a soldier who has been fighting with Don Pedro. Beatrice is the niece of Leonato and the cousin of Hero. Beatrice uses her mockery to teases people and she very verbal towards them as well. Benedick uses mocks people for his amusement,he is very arrogant and he is against marriage. (Beatrice)”He is the Prince's fool and a very dull fool at that. (Benedick) But it is certain that I am loved by all the ladies,only except you.The quote that Beatrice stats is showing her mocking Benedick and teasing him by calling him a fool. The quote bendeick says proves thate he is very conceited and arrogant. He is saying that he all women love him. Even though Benedick and Beatrice often smacktalk each other with their own personal traits it can still happen with traits they both inherit. Beatrice and Bendick share some of the same characteristics like mockery and teasing one another which …show more content…
Beatrice and Benedicks character traits affect the plot because you start out with two people who hate each other and then when Claudio publicly shames Hero,Benedick is supportive of Beatrice which shows that they really don’t hate each other any more. I think that this book shows is that anyone can have a healthy relationship eventually even if you hate just like beatrice and Benedick, you could have a connection towards someone that you never thought you would
I find it more satisfying because their relationship is easier to understand. They are always cracking jokes and calling each other names in a friendly manner. Claudio and Hero’s relationship is easier to understand, but they get into a big argument that makes them fall apart. Benedick and Beatrice argue constantly as a sign of showing that they secretly have a “ thing ” for each other. While Claudio and Hero have a more love at first sight which is not a real love that is full of
The difference between Beatrice,Benedick,and the other two Claudio and Hero though is that, these two are very headstrong characters with a different outlook on love, but have very much love for one another. Benedick believes in just being a bachelor and spending the rest of his life messing with as many women as he pleases, well as for Beatrice she believes there is no man good enough and willing to show her the love she wants so she much rather be left alone. But the fact that they honestly want to believe what they say is what makes this get way more interesting. What they don’t know is that they are going to soon become curious trying to figure out what they truly feel for one
When Benedick hears that Claudio has fallen in love for Hero, he is enraged. He thought that Claudio would live a bachelor’s life like him. Benedick tells him that men who are in love are not masculine. Near the end of Act IV, Benedick’s complete change is evident when Benedick chooses love over friendship. Benedick challenges Claudio, previously his closest friend in the world, to duel to the death over Claudio’s accusation as to Hero’s unethical behavior. After Beatrice complains to him about Claudio’s mistake, Benedick gives in, “Enough, I am engaged. I will challenge him.” At this point, there is no doubt that Benedick has switched his allegiances entirely over to Beatrice. But then again, Benedick was relieved that Hero was proved guilty so he would not have to fight his close friend Claudio.
We can tell from the start of the play that Beatrice and Benedick are perfect for each other, simply by their matching characteristics and a similar level of intellect, which is a perfect basis for marriage. They are both shrewd evident through their skill of twisting other people’s words, loyal shown through Benedick not killing Claudio and Beatrice never doubting Hero,...
However, at the end of the play, Benedick submits to Beatrice at the end of their confessions. The change in his ways his shown in the quote ‘Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I will kiss your hand, and so leave you. By this hand, Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you hear of me, so think of me. Go comfort your cousin’. Before realising that he was in love with Beatrice, he was very argumentative with Beatrice, and wouldn’t listen to her. This quote shows that Benedick is so in love with Beatrice that he would do anything for her to be happy, even if it means that he has to kill Claudio, one of Benedick’s good friends; he is giving in to her wishes, and will allow himself to commit crimes for her. When Benedick says ‘Claudio shall render me a dear account’, Benedick is saying that he will make Claudio pay for what he’s done- he is showing a sensitive and sympathetic side to Beatrice. The phrase ‘Go comfort your cousin’ has an underlying message; Benedick is telling Beatrice to not worry and that he will take care of it, making a change from the arrogant, rowdy man at the beginning of the play.
Benedick is set out as one of the main characters in the play. This is probably because he has such a big personality and as 'Much Ado About Nothing' is a comedy, himself and Beatrice are essential to the plot. The play sees Benedick turn from a man who resents the very idea of trusting a woman and marriage, to one who falls in love with his equal and asks for her hand.
After Claudio blew up at the wedding and slandered Hero, Benedick stayed to comfort her. Unlike the other men, he knew that Hero didn’t cheat and Don ]ohn was behind this plan. As Bendick states, “And if their wisdoms be misled in this the practice of it lives in Don John the Bastard” (Shakespeare 71). When he believes Hero has nothing to do with this, Beatrice wants it to challenge Claudio. Bendick has changed from a person who never wanted to get married, to a person in love. Driven by this love, he is willing to go against his friends for Beatrice. Ironically both these characters’ attitudes have been
Both Beatrice and Benedick are strong-willed, intelligent characters, who fear that falling in love will lead to a loss of freedom and eventually heartbreak. This causes them to deny their love for each other and it is only through the machinations of other characters in the play that their true feelings emerge. When these feelings are finally acknowledged, both characters are changed, but the changes are subtle. They are neither drastic nor monumental.
Don Pedro, Leonato, and Claudio, all aware that Benedick is of hearing range, talk about how Beatrice is actually in love with Benedick. This convinces Benedick that it must be true. Leonato says, “But my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to / think of it but that she loves him what an enraged / affection; it is past the infinite of thought” (II.iii.103-105). At the end of Act II scene III, Benedick says, “…They say the lady / is fair; ‘tis a truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; / ‘tis so, I cannot reprove it; and wise but for loving / me; by my troth, it is in no addition to her wit, nor no / great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in / love with her” (II.iii.226-231), admitting his love for Beatrice while also claiming that she has every quality that he previously had wished for. This breaks down his dominant stance concerning the battle of the sexes theme. Ironically Benedick finds himself in the same situation he had previously mocked Claudio for in his soliloquy, “I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much / another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors / to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies / in others, become the argument of his own scorn / by falling in love; and such a man is Claudio” (II.iii.8-12). The question arises of why Benedick’s such “strong” opinion of love is so easily shifted when he finds out Beatrice’s love for him. We wonder whether he had actually loved Beatrice all along or if he is an easily swayed person. It can be inferred that Benedick had actually loved Beatrice all along, but because he possesses such a hard-headed personality, he wouldn’t acknowledge the feeling until Beatrice had acknowledged her own similar feelings towards him. In the soliloquy, Benedick declares, “…One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am
Much Ado About Nothing is a lighthearted play that Shakespeare wrote between 1598 and 1600. It has been described as one of his "more mature romantic comedies" (Bevington, 216). This play focuses on two different relationships, formed by two pairs of lovers. The comparison between how people went about getting married back then and how they do it now is similar in some ways. Much Ado About Nothing portrays the manner in which people fall in love, the way they interact with each other and how they manage to get through the rough times without changing their love for one another. The two couples include the young ladies, who are cousins, Beatrice and Hero, and the gentlemen, Claudio and Benedick. There is a lot of obvious love between Hero and Claudio and he has come to claim her as his own. However, there is some bad blood that runs between Benedick and his Beatrice. Little do they know that they are made for each other.
	 The relationship between Benedick and Beatrice is one manufactured completely through deception on the behalf of their friends. Though the plot to unite them was planned, many of the problems that arose were because of things that were overheard accidentally or on purpose. In Act II, Scene 3 Benedick is deceived into thinking that Beatrice loves him because of the speech in the garden between Leonato, Claudio, and Don Pedro. Beatrice is sent to fetch Benedick for dinner, and Benedick notes "some marks of love in her," and he decides to take pity upon her and return her love. In Act III, Scene 1 Beatrice is deceived as she overhears Hero and Ursula talk of Benedick's affection for her. Beatrice then decides to allow herself to be tamed by Benedick's "loving hand," and return his love. Beatrice and Benedick re made to fall in love through the deception of those around them, and ironically find happiness more readily than Claudio and Hero.
In my opinion Beatrice and Benedick have a much more satisfying relationship then Hero and Claudio because they don 't just meet and have butterflies for each other they argue but at the end of the day they love each other. Their attitude towards love is much more understandable because they want to live there life and not be married to one person for the rest of their
Beatrice and Benedick, Beatrice, have had their ups and downs. The pair absolutely despised each other, but with the help of their peers, family, and friends, everything will clear up. Benedick is a soldier with player ways, and Beatrice is a beauty with scornful ways. Their relationship will drastically flip from the beginning to the end of the book.
Shakespeare makes sure that Beatrice comes off as a woman who is not afraid to speak her mind to anyone. This is portrayed in the beginning of act one, when the mail messenger comes to announce that the soldiers are on their way to Messina. They start a conversation about Benedick and he tells Beatrice that Benedick is a "lord to a lord, a ...
...tside influences, and actions. They know each other well, have the support of their friends and family, and act as a real couple does. However, Romeo and Juliet do not know each other well, often making impulsive decisions because of this. Being from enemy families, they hide their marriage. Furthermore, they do not act like real people by frequenting the use of poems in casual speech among other imaginative actions. This couple does not share the same kind of bond as Beatrice and Benedick because of their marriage's fantastical elements. Just as Dr. King said is possible, both couples start as enemies and are united together by love. Although they both prove that love can unite the most bitter enemies, one of the two loves is deeper. Despite the steryotype that Romeo and Juliet have a perfect relationship, Beatrice and Benedick's is much stronger and more realistic.