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Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice And Benedick Relationship

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In Much Ado About Nothing, the relationship between Benedick and Beatrice develops throughout the course of the play. As their relationship develops from hatred to friendship to romance, these characters are forced to make sacrifices in order to make room for the new love in their lives. Benedick, in particular, makes a sacrifice out of love that shows the powerful impact of love on his life. Benedick’s willingness to sacrifice his friendship with Claudio for Beatrice demonstrates the emboldening, life-changing impact that love has on a person’s values and loyalties. Benedick’s loyalties completely shift from his fellow soldiers to Beatrice after he and Beatrice profess their love for each other. 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. In addition, Beatrice calls upon Benedick’s honor when she asks him to duel …show more content…

These sacrifices can show what is important to a character and whether or not their values fall into unison with the values of society. Benedick’s sacrifice reveals that his values are true to societal norms, and that he is willing to do whatever necessary to defend Beatrice’s honor and that of her family. Sacrifices are a part of life, and analyzing the value of the reward versus the cost of the risk is an important aspect of successful

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Do you also think that Benedick is Claudio’s foil? In the play: “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, a villain named Don John tricked Claudio by making him believe that Hero have been cheating on him which resulted in Claudio getting mad and ruining his and Hero’s wedding, accusing Hero that she was being unfaithful. After that, Hero faked her death and one of Don John’s minions admitted that he was paid to make Claudio believed things about Hero that are not true; Claudio married who was supposed to be Hero’s cousin without knowing that it was Hero that he was married to which surprised him and made him happy when it was revealed that it was Hero that he was married to. In this story, I do believe that Benedick serves as Claudio’s

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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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In the book Divergent by Veronica Roth the character Beatrice Prior has a internal conflict with herself because she does not know whether to stay with her home faction Abnegation or go to Dauntless. Thier society is broken up to factions ( Abnegation, Candor, Erudite, Amity and Dauntless)You were placed into a faction based on your personality. Beatrice was raised in Abnegation and she was taught to think of others before their self , they did everything in a gratuitously manner. Abnegation people never had a crass moment . Dauntless were the faction who valued braveness, fearlessness and toughness.

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(2.3.231) The next scene is the final part of their plan, to convince Beatrice that she is in love with Benedick. Hero, Margaret and Ursula talk together while Beatrice is listening. Their conversation is fairly similar to the one the guys had. After the girls are done deceiving Beatrice and leave Beatrice comes to the realization that maybe she does love Benedick after all.

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Beatrice needed a man to get revenge and get back Hero’s honor because she knows that she will not be able to do anything herself. She doesn’t have enough power to do so, but if Benedick would kill Claudio, the people would not think much of

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Benedick was secret with Beatrice the night of the masquerade party. In the book, Beatrice says “ Why, he is the prince's jester, a very dull fool, only his gifts is in devising impossible slanders.” Beatrice doesn’t know that she was dancing with Benedick. She speaks rudely about him to his face. Benedick now knows what she thinks of him in her view.

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But how many hath he killed? For indeed I promised to eat all of his killing" (1.1). This is the first mention of Benedick in the entire play, and already Beatrice is berating him and accusing him of not being a good soldier. Beatrice is focused on herself and downplays Benedick, which hurts Benedick when he learns what she says about him. Another time when Beatrice’s pride gets in the way of her thinking through her actions is during the masquerade party when she speaks to whom she believes is a stranger but is Benedick with a mask and says: "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 (2.1).

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Much Ado About Nothing. This quote by Beatrice was the point when she truly fell in love with Benedick. Interestingly, this line also showed Beatrice giving away her pride, and contempt, all in all suggesting that with pride love cannot

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He says he wishes his horse could move as fast and tireless as Beatrice's mouth. In the book Benedick's love is very complicated with Beatrice as they are always exchanging insults to each other giving the scene a bit of humor to amuse the viewer. I believe Shakespeare wrote this in the scripts to allow the audience to see the love hate relationship with Benedick love for beatrice through the outstanding insults they share. Either one has a comeback to one another. To me, i consider Beatrice and Benedick’s love not an ideal because what kind of relationships find insults attracting also that's not your typical argue for a while and make up couple Benedick and Beatrice constantly have something deceiving to

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Benedick couldn’t hesitate to execute that offer Beatrice made considering how much he loves her, he would do anything in the world for her. This demonstrates how strong love can be either in romance or in family. Benedick tried to challenge Claudio, but the fight never happened. Finally, after all this hate and love between these two lovebirds, Beatrice and Benedick, they get married. Benedick asks Beatrice to marry him, then she quotes “ I would not deny you; but, by this good day I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption”.

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Before Benedick and Beatrice decided to marry each other or start a relationship at all, they took a period of time to ponder their feelings and realize the best solution, something Claudio and Hero completely ignored. Once they decided to finally start a relationship, their joking nature didn 't change, displaying their friendship and love for each other as a main component that has not wavered. Even when announcing their relationship, a serious matter, Benedick joked, “But by this light, I take thee/ for pity”(5.4.92-93). It is obvious that Benedick does not actually think Beatrice is ugly, but their relationship is so strong that he can jokingly insult her. In contrast, Hero and Claudio had to remain respectful towards each other in order to not risk the marriage.

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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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Even though this “war” happens amongst them, it is obvious that they care for one another or else they would not continue the fight; realistically, they would have ceased communication years before. Their relationship, through the war of wits was only seen as deceptive to themselves. Beatrice and Benedick constantly lie to themselves about their feelings towards the other, while their true emotions are apparent to anyone from the outside looking in. It is obvious from the beginning of the play, that the truth of their emotions would be revealed purposely or unintentionally by themselves or those around them. Their ironic nature towards each other, though seen as somewhat deceitful is more honest than their counterparts of Hero and Claudio who solely act upon opinions and rumors of

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Benedick and Beatrice just roll with each other. They have similar wits and intelligence. This can be seen when Benedick first arrives. Beatrice says that “Scratching could not make it worse an ’twere such a face as yours were” (1.1.109) in which Benedick replies with “Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.” (1.1.110).

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