Beatrice Vs Benedick

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Good morrow to thy fellow reader, reading this essay, I’m going to explain who is the ideal couple betwixt Beatrice, and Benedick or Hero, and Claudio and why they are an ideal couple, in the book Much Ado About Nothing written by, William Shakespeare. Before we start let’s get into depth about our four characters which would be Signior Benedick, Count Claudio, Lady Beatrice, and Lady Hero. Signior Benedick is a ruthless person towards Lady Beatrice and has disputes with her in the challenge of wit and knowledge, soon realizes that she has been . Count Claudio is a sweet yet shy male, that attends to two people only which would be the Prince, and Signior Benedick. Lady Beatrice is a lovely woman that dislikes Signior Benedick in the beginning because, of his smirky attitude but ends up wanting him in the end. Then, last we got Lady Hero, who is a gentle, and lovely woman that likes Count Claudio, then wants to marry him but then gets deceived by Borachio and Margaret. Now we get into who is the most ideal couple betwixt Lady Hero, and Count Claudio, or is it Lady Beatrice, and Signior Benedick. Signior Benedick will do anything for Lady Beatrice even if it goes as far as to killing a good and loyal friend, in these quotes exclaimed betwixt by Benedick and Beatrice that Beatrice says, “Kill Claudio” (4.1.303). What Beatrice is saying is that if Signior Benedick swears his word that he loves her to slay the villainous traitor known as Claudio. Beatrice is telling Benedick that if he swears his love then challenge Claudio to the death in order for her love. Then Benedick answers, “Ha! Not for the wide world” (4.1.304). Benedick is being or trying to protect Claudio, because he knows what Claudio is capable of and knew that he was tricked into thinking that Hero was with another man the …show more content…
Claudio is basically explaining to the Prince how he had confessed his love to Hero before they had went to war. So this means that this isn’t the first time Claudio and Hero spoke or saw each other. Next, the Prince in later lines describes to Claudio how he came up with a plan to get them together and married, “...I know we shall have reveling tonight. I will assume thy part in some disguise And tell fair Hero I am Claudio” (1.1.315-317). The Prince is trying to get Hero to get her to love Claudio so that they can get married and live happily together. Also, that he’ll put good word for Claudio to Hero to even make her fall for Claudio even more than …show more content…
So the relationship betwixt, Benedick, and Beatrice are a smart yet cunning couple, wise yet foolish, old but so young. Now all that is left is Claudio, and Hero their relationship is too young, childish, and immature they had rushed into marriage to quickly, young Claudio is too sensitive when it comes to getting tricked by Don John (The Prince’s Brother), and has slandered his own wife with words of grief and pain. So the ideal couple that I think is Benedick, and Beatrice because they are both ruthless, hard headed, and can be immature or mature at times unlike Claudio, and Hero. Also, that Benedick hasn’t commit or slander his love with words of grief and pain, like

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