A Comparison Of Benedick And Beatrice In Much Ado About Nothing

“Peace! I will stop your mouth[with a kiss].” In Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Benedick and Beatrice serve as the comedic relief characters, which the plot is steeped in, through their actions of reasonableness, moonstruck ness, and tsundere like actions. Benedick and Beatrice are contradictory in many ways, one way is that Beatrice is reasonable while Benedick is moonstruck, which sucks the plot through a series of humorous paradoxes. In the first quote, Leonato, Claudio, and Don Pedro are pointing out and noticing the differences of how Benedick is acting. In the second quote, Beatrice is stating how affectionate she is towards Benedick. In the play it is stated by Benedick and Beatrice, “Gallants, I am not as I have been,”(shakespeare …show more content…
Tsundere is a Japanese term for a character development process that describes a person who is initially cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warmer side over time. Benedick and Beatrice are both denying that they love each other more than reason, but Hero and Claudio have proof that they in fact, do love each other. In the play, as stated by Benedick and Beatrice, “And I’ll be sworn upon ‘t that he loves her, For here’s a paper written in his hand, A halting sonnet of his own pure brain, Fashioned to Beatrice,” and, “And here’s another, Writ in my cousin’s hand, Stol’n from her pocket, Containing her affection unto Benedick.” Benedick states that he does not love her, when he actually does. He initially acted cold to Beatrice, like he despised her, but in the end winds up admitting to have fallen for her. Beatrice, at the beginning of the book, claims that she strongly dislikes Benedick. By the end of the book, she admitted to have fallen in love with Benedick, but was still acting cold to him.That was only one of many ways that Beatrice are same in mannerism, and a few ways they are