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Hero and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
The two characters, Hero and Beatrice, go hand in hand, although each
has many differences. The reason the characters are so different, at
times, is Shakespeare's way of emphasising each character. Hero would
not seem as quiet if Beatrice wasn't so loud, and Beatrice wouldn't
seem so overly confident if Hero didn't act so shy. The two, during
the play fall in love with two very different people. They both have
different views and ideals, especially concerning love and marriage.
They are both very close friends, they share everything together. In
the end they each fall in love, becoming more similar as the play and
their relationships progress.
From Act 1 Scene 1 we are bombarded by Beatrice's wit and her very
loud and abrasive actions. She argues with Benedick, this takes up
most of the act, the two get very carried away, and this shows us her
passionate nature. On the other hand we have Hero who, although being
present in Act 1 Scene 1, says only one thing. This is a perfect
example of her nature; her timid nature
Hero is just a little, spoilt, girl. She has everything done for her
and this is a major reason why she is so quiet, people do anything for
her because she is an ideal girl; this is what so attracts Claudio I
imagine. Beatrice on the other hand is a very mature young woman,
although not quite a woman. In many respects she is much older and
more mature than Hero will ever be, and Beatrice is shunned because of
this difference; this difference being what Benedick ultimately falls
in love with.
A major difference I noticed was between the two actual l...
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the end of the play we get the idea that they will forever be friends.
Hero's shy and timid nature has become a little more forward and
confident; she is growing up as the play continues. By the end,
although she has learnt a great deal about the world, she is still
just a spoilt child, who needs not speak or act because those around
will do it for her.
With the help of 'cupid's traps', Beatrice's witty enemy Benedick has
broken her hard and independent shell. She has lost her anger at being
an 'old maid' which made her so fiery and overly witty at the
beginning of the play, it has been replaced by a more 'tamed heart',
but her passion never leaves her. She is, by the end of the play, more
than just the mature young woman she was, I feel she has turned full
circle and become her own ideal woman.
The climax is illustrated and clarified through the symbolic tearing or exposing of the bare walls. She wants to free the woman within, yet ends up trading places, or becoming, that "other" woman completely. Her husband's reaction only serves as closure to her psychotic episode, forcing him into the unfortunate realization that she has been unwell this whole time.
Beatrice is the ever-witty Lady Disdain, outspoken and opinionated niece of Leonato. She and Benedick are involved in a "merry sort of war". Always ragging on each other in a sort of easy going way, but never the less hurting each other's feelings. Both are cynical about Love. Beatrice is described by her uncle to mock all of her wooers out of suite.
In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare there are two main plots in the story. The first is about Claudio and Hero and their relationship, the second is Beatrice and Benedick and their relationship both of these relationships end up in marriage. Shakespeare compares these relationships side by side and you can clearly see his opinion on marriage. He believes in love, but he doesn’t believe in the arranged marriage that is happening during the Elizabethan era of his writing.
play we start to see the evil side of her begin to come out. She
scene 1 'If he send me no husband for which is a blessing…Lord I could
...n be seen as her overcoming his total control over her life. She was now taking control, almost taking over the role that he had previously occupied.
Shakespeare represents Beatrice as a very feisty, cynical and sharp woman during the play. We can especially see this when she uses her wit to shock the messenger saying, in act one scene one, that ‘he is no less than a stuffed man.’ This is exceedingly disrespectful to fashion such a rude comment about a man who is just about to arrive back from war. One thing Shakespeare clearly shows us is that Beatrice would not be the ideal woman for most men. To emphasize this he contrasts Beatrice with a weak and quiet character such as Hero who acts upon every mans instruction, we can see this when Beatrice says to Leonato that its her ‘cousins duty’ to say ‘father as it please you.’ Shakespeare makes such a clear contrast between the two women to the extent that Beatrice steals most of Hero’s attention from the other male characters in the play. Furthermore he shows us how Beatrice is perhaps a threat to the patriarchal society at the time, we can see this on page fifty-nine where she implys that it is her duty to please herself, whether or not her father consents. This is unlike Hero, who cannot do anything unless a man is fighting her corner, however Beatrice is willing to
suspicious of John. By the end of the play, she is a lot more open
When Benedick hears that Claudio has fallen in love for Hero, he is enraged. He thought that Claudio would live a bachelor’s life like him. Benedick tells him that men who are in love are not masculine. Near the end of Act IV, Benedick’s complete change is evident when Benedick chooses love over friendship. Benedick challenges Claudio, previously his closest friend in the world, to duel to the death over Claudio’s accusation as to Hero’s unethical behavior. After Beatrice complains to him about Claudio’s mistake, Benedick gives in, “Enough, I am engaged. I will challenge him.” At this point, there is no doubt that Benedick has switched his allegiances entirely over to Beatrice. But then again, Benedick was relieved that Hero was proved guilty so he would not have to fight his close friend Claudio.
In Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing, there are the usual characters that show up in most of Shakespeare’s pieces. For instance the characters Hero and Claudio could easily be compared to Romeo and Juliet. Both Hero and Juliet are innocent, quite, and beautiful young women who fall in love instantly without conversing with the other person. Likewise, Claudio and Romeo decide to marry these women within twenty-four hours. Because of these characters’ lack of unique and interesting qualities, I am intrigued by Beatrice.
In William Shakespeare's short play Much Ado About Nothing, he focuses on the social standings and the roles of women in 16th Century Europe. The female protagonist of the play, Beatrice, understands the restrictions placed upon her by society and how these restrictions should limit her as a woman, but she inexorably escapes them by refusing to succumb to the unifying hand of marriage. Throughout the play, Shakespeare displays his profound respect for woman as independent individuals who are fully capable of making their own decisions and suffering their own consequences. Through the plot, he proposes the idea that women who deviate away from the passivity that society expects them to perform attain a more active role in the determination of their future. Contrary to the roles of women of the 16th Century, Shakespeare depiction of Beatrice's independence is symbolic of his stance on the progression and transformation of women's reputation in society.
adds to the comedy of the rest of play. It is obvious to the audience
for something new. At this point in the play we see she is bored "Well
Beatrice and Hero are both wonderful and intriguing characters. They develop in interesting ways and they represent two extremely different views of society and what it was like to be a woman in those patriarchal times.
Beatrice is, without a doubt, one of the strongest female characters that Shakespeare ever came up with in his time of writing. Shakespeare shows, through Beatrice, how every woman should act in an era where only the men were even able to have control. In this era, or the renaissance time, no woman had free will; they were always told what they could and could not do, as well as, who they were to marry. In the play “Much Ado About Nothing” Beatrice has many qualities but the ones that stand out the most in the play are: her independence, her feistiness, and of course her openness to defy male subjection.