Loyalty In Much Ado About Nothing

If a written work is supposed to make readers laugh, there will always be characters in it who are witty. Much Ado About Nothing is a comedic play chock full of wordplay and abusive remarks between characters. Benedick and Beatrice, characters from Much Ado About Nothing are the perfect archetypes of witty humor. Thakee Chowdhury is a reader of this play, who had his laughs reading their interactions as they display his favorite type of humor: wit. Thakee is witty like Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing. Thakee’s humor is his most defining characteristic. One of the best ways he makes people laugh is through his wit. Most of it comes from insulting people but only in jest. For example, a friend requested help with drawing a line graph, and

One of the most important relationships in the play is between her and Benedick. In the beginning of the book where Leonato and a messenger are conversing, Leonato says, “You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a kind of merry war between Signior Benedick and her: they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them,” (I.i). He is telling the messenger that Beatrice, his niece, is not a bad person for insulting Benedick, but rather that she is competing in a game of wits against him. It is established from the start that Beatrice likes to insult Benedick. An example of one of those insults is during the mask party, where the two of them are talking with their identities being disguised. Beatrice says, “Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool, only his gift is in devising impossible slanders.” (II.i). The incognito Benedick asks her what she thinks about him, and she responds bluntly with her opinion on him. She pulled no punches with her insult and did so in a subtle way, a key trait of wittiness.

Other characters are perceptive of Beatrice’s wittiness, especially those on the receiving end. Benedick knows as much about her wit as he does about his own wit. While he is talking to Don Pedro about his quarrel with Beatrice, he says, “She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would