Much To Do About Nothing Beatrice And Benedick Analysis

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In the book, Much To Do About Nothing, the author talks about two couples that are in love ,but Beatrice and Benedick are the ideal couple because they share opinions on how to live their life and how one person shouldn't be tied down to another in the beginning of the story.This is proven when they say in the book ”Benedick:Then is courtesy a turncoat. It is certain I am loved of all you excepted; and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for truly I love none.Beatrice: dear happiness to women!One of the first times love is discussed in the story was in(1.1 189-192), when Benedick says to Claudio,”but I hope you have no intent to turn husband have you?” Claudio replies by saying,” I would scarce myself, though I had sworn the contrary, If hero Hero would be my wife”. This is one of the first times that marriage is spoken of explicitly, and it’s presented as an object of unwitting deception. Claudio apparently has been as anti-marriage as Benedick, but now that he wants to marry Hero, he notes that even he can’t trust his own word. …show more content…
I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humor in that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.”In(1.1.122-130) this quote benedick says he never loved and he will never love a woman. Beatrice says she would rather hear a dog bark, then a guy telling her he loves her. They are also roughly equal in wit and intelligence as shown by this quote (1.1.139-143) Benedick: I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer, but keep your way, i' God's name, I have done.Beatrice:You always end with a jade's trick. I know you of old(1.1.139-143). In this quote Benedick was insulting Beatrice by saying he wishes that his horse was as fast as her tongue. Beatrice says that he always stops by making the last joke and talking to the other

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