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Benedick and His Secret “Bene-heart” His relation and development to the thematic of the power of love (and how it drives you) Bene translates into good from Italian, explaining Benedick’s amusing personality. Benedick has the personality of a man’s man or, so to speak. He gives off a vibe of arrogance, superiority, and even a God complex, yet can change his mannerisms with the passing of time and friends. Others perceive him as lonely and overcompensating for the love he doesn’t have. When he does fall in love with Beatrice, he transforms into the lovesick fool he made fun of. The timeline of Benedick’s anti-love rhetoric transitioning into lovesick nonsense contextualizes the theme of the power of love (and how it drives you) among others, such as freedom, …show more content…
Benedick has been known to change his “best friends” multiple times, “Who is his companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.” (Shakespeare 1.1.69-71). Benedick and his attitude towards his friendships can flip depending on the situation. The fact that Benedick will change friends and style all willy-nilly means something. He needs something stable in his life to hold him down to earth instead of trying to fill the empty void in his heart. When the time comes and Beatrice wants him to duel Claudio, he is willing, “ Enough, I am engaged. I will challenge him. I will kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand, Claudio shall render me a dear account.” (Shakespeare 4.1.346-58). It is shocking seeing Benedick so willing to go after his “best friend” all for Beatrice and her love for him. He has now found something that can keep him grounded and down to Earth and he will do anything to keep things like that. Together with all of Benedick’s behavior he has gained experience and developed the one of the major themes power of love( and how it drives
...e down by weeping. Shakespeare shows us that Beatrice is the only character despite some of these positive attributes of Beatrice’s character, she is very rude about men. She says ‘but manhood is melted into curtsies’ showing Benedick her lack of respect towards men. However it is possibly her refreshing honesty that leads her to be a positive role model.
The characters, Beatrice and Benedick have a very complicated relationship. They are always exchanging words and calling each other names. They call each other names from the very beginning of the play to the very end. In act 1, Benedick says “ If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not have his head on her shoulders for all of Messina, as like him as she is ” (1.1.111-113). Beatrice follows by saying, “ I wonder that you will be talking, Signior Benedick, nobody marks you ” (1.1.114-115). These quotes show that they have always had a complicated relationship because they insult each other without them expecting it.
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
Benedick and Beatrice both benefit from the deceit that they encounter. At first, both are enemies in a battle of insults and wit, until they are each fooled into thinking that the other loves them. When Benedick hears that Beatrice is supposedly attracted to him, he thinks that it is “a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence” (111). Little does he know, Leonato, the "white-bearded fellow," is also in on the joke (111). Benedick starts to admire her when he is aware that Beatrice might actually be attracted to himself, as well. She is also astonished when she first hears that he loves her. However, when Beatrice comes to terms with their affection, she hopes "Benedick [will] love on... And [she] Believe it better than reportingly" (134). In other words, she falls in love with Benedick as soon as she believes that he, too, is fond of her. They each start to fall in love with one another under the pretense that other was hiding their affection from them. Now that they are both in love, they start to open up to each other and prove that the deception they endured was worth it in the end.
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.
Beatrice and Benedick show their apparent distaste for each other right from the first scene. Beatrice mocks Benedick to the Governor of Messina, claiming that she always beats him in a battle of wits and the last time they crossed paths Benedict’s “five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man governed by one” (1,1,50). Clearly relishing resuming their ‘merry war’, Beatrice cuts Benedick down at the first opportunity, telling him “I wonder that you still will be talking, Signor Benedick, nobody marks you” (1,1,105). Incredulously, Benedick retorts, “what my dear lady distain! Are you yet living?” (1,1,95). So, the dynamic of the two is set and it goes on from there in the same vein. Yet, the reader, even at this early stage may ponder if the lady doth protest too much.
Telling what kind of person a character is in a book can be hard. The author tries to tell the readers how the character is through different kinds of details that make the audience get a sense of how the character might be. William Shakespeare is an author who gives as much detail as possible so he can enlighten the audience on how the character might be as a person. In Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet, he presents a special character, which people begin to get a sense of how he is as a person, and that person is Benvolio. Through the irony, dramatic tone, and exquisite dialogue, Shakespeare portrays Benvolio as thoughtful person and a peace keeper.
Shakespeare portrays Benedick as a contrast to the normal of upper-class society of that time. He is more modern in his ways than his close friend Claudio, who's naivity is arguably the reason for the backbone of the storyline. When we first meet Benedick, he's not particularly notable for anything other than his sharp wit, which he uses to happily and insensitively indulge his mean streak. He loves to play the role of the director – he even tells Don Pedro about the lines he should speak when Don Pedro is courting Hero on Claudio's behalf. Most things are a joke to him, and he cares little for others' feelings. However, some quotes suggest that this is just an act and he is perfectly aware of his actions, and is wi...
When Benedick hushes her with a kiss, you begin to see that perhaps Beatrice acted the way she did throughout the play because she craved male attention and affection. We understand that her behavior towards the male characters is so that she gains more attention for being independent but can being interpreted that she was just lonely. However, it could also be suggested that Beatrice’s aim of is go subvert from the stereotype to get Benedick’s attention and that she always loved him. When Beatrice says ‘I would not deny you’ we as an audience could interpret that as a way of her saying that she has always wanted husband. We could believe that Beatrice is a mirror image of the character Benedick because they both say that they do not wish to marry but when they express their love for each other, they are very convincing characters.
of the wittiest dialogue in the play. They are more worldly and both of them protest that they never intend to marry. This makes the audience enjoy even more, their rapid acceptance of each other’s. affection when they are tricked into falling in love with each other. In the opening scene, Beatrice begins a sequence of insults by asking Benedick, why he is talking as no one listens to him.
Beatrice is the ever-witty Lady Disdain, outspoken and opinionated niece of Leonato. She and Benedick are involved in a "merry sort of war". Always ragging on each other in a sort of easy going way, but never the less hurting each other's feelings. Both are cynical about Love. Beatrice is described by her uncle to mock all of her wooers out of suite.
Benvolio initially appears to be a minor character in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As Romeo’s trustworthy cousin he is the consistent anchor and voice of reason throughout the play. Benvolio is portrayed as an honest, steadfast friend and peacemaker yet he has his own heartaches, which cause him to not always act sensibly.
In Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, the element of love is portrayed in a romantic and playful manner. Whereas the love between Claudio and Hero is demonstrated as romantic, the love between Benedick and Beatrice is presented in a playful manner (McCollom 166). For instance, Claudio sounds romantic when he tells Hero, “In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on” (Shakespeare 181). Beatrice and Benedick use playful words to express their feelings. For instance, Beatrice sounds unromantic when she tells Hero, “For, hear me, Hero, wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch. A measure, and a cinque-pace; the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch” (Shakespeare 188). In addition Beatrice is playful when she tells Benedick, “Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed” (Shakespeare
...he other hand, Beatrice and Benedick are comedy-makers and Beatrice is not ruled by her father as Hero clearly is. It does take Don Pedro’s benevolent plot to bring Benedick and Beatrice together, however. A modern audience would prefer Beatrice to Hero as she is her own self and admirable. The relationships also differ because Benedick and Beatrice’s relationship slowly grew whereas Claudio and Hero’s relationship was love at first sight. Perhaps it was a little hasty as we see in Act 4 how their love turns sour.
...beforehand. He was also going through an identity crisis, trying to find his true self and knowing what was best for him. He had loved the people had relationships with but most importantly he learned to love himself when he was ultimately seperated from Iseult the Fair. On a psychological point of view, he experienced the continuing affections from others because it was a survival need. From infancy to maturity love needs to be present at all times. Love is a solid force for challenging the obstacles in life.