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One great example of this is when Benedick first comes back from war and her first remark to him is “I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick, nobody marks you” (A1; S1; L114-115). This not only shows her hatred toward Benedick in the beginning of the play but also shows that she can have a very wicked tongue and she is not afraid to speak her mind. Telling him that she does not know why he even wastes his breath by talking, nobody respects him so in her mind he should do them all a favor and just not talk. In the same conversation Benedick says “God keep your Ladyship still in that mind, so some gentleman or other shall ‘scape a predestinate scratched face.” And with that she replies “Scratching could not make it worse an ‘twere such a face as yours were.” (A1; S1; L 131-135). Feeling maybe a little insulted she goes to say that scratching on ones face would be an improvement compared to looking at a face such as his. She is very feisty and ill-hearted to him in the beginning because of a hinted past that they have had which ended in her being
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She is not one who likes men to rule over her but of course there is nothing she can do about it. A really good example of that is when she says “Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust, to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll none: Adam’s sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred” (A2; S1; L 60-64). She does not like the idea that men are the only ones that can rule in this point in time. She believes that woman should be equal and that they should be able to decide things for themselves. A better example would have to be when Claudio slandered Hero. When she tells Benedick, who came to comfort her, “Is ‘a not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured, my kingswoman? O that I were a man! What! Bear herin hand until theycome to take hands, and then with the public accusation, uncover’d slander, unmitigated rancor – O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.” (A4; S1; L 315-321). When Hero was wrongly accused is when Beatrice showed this the most. She believed that because of what he had done, Claudio deserved to be dead. She wanted no bad deed to go unpunished and what she seen fit was for Benedick to challenge Claudio to a dule and she didn’t want Benedick to stop until he was
She is not one who likes men to rule over her but of course there is nothing she can do about it. A really good example of that is when she says “Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a piece of valiant dust, to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I’ll none: Adam’s sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred” (A2; S1; L 60-64). She does not like the idea that men are the only ones that can rule in this point in time. She believes that woman should be equal and that they should be able to decide things for themselves. A better example would have to be when Claudio slandered Hero. When she tells Benedick, who came to comfort her, “Is ‘a not approved in the height a villain that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured, my kingswoman? O that I were a man! What! Bear herin hand until theycome to take hands, and then with the public accusation, uncover’d slander, unmitigated rancor – O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.” (A4; S1; L 315-321). When Hero was wrongly accused is when Beatrice showed this the most. She believed that because of what he had done, Claudio deserved to be dead. She wanted no bad deed to go unpunished and what she seen fit was for Benedick to challenge Claudio to a dule and she didn’t want Benedick to stop until he was