Beatrice at the start of Much Ado About Nothing
- Created by: flobax15
- Created on: 18-06-18 18:49
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- Beatrice- Much Ado About Nothing
- Contrast with Hero- Beatrice's cousin
- Hero is the stereotypical Elizabethan women and more typically portrays a women of their social class in that era whereas Beatrice is the opposite and defies the stereotypes of the time.
- Beatrice is outspoken and confident whereas Hero is much more reserved and obedient.
- Beatrice and Benedick's 'Merry war'
- Hints at affection
- "You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old" -> She believes he as always done this, admiration?
- Very confrontational relationship
- Examples of insults
- Beatrice to Benedick- "A dear happiness to women, they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor.
- Pernicious = evil, villainous
- Beatrice to Benedick- "A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours"
- Benedick to Beatrice- "Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher"
- Adjective 'rare' shows how it wasn't usual for women to be so outspoken
- Beatrice to Benedick- "A dear happiness to women, they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor.
- Examples of insults
- Hints at affection
- Characteristic of Beatrice
- Independent
- Says she will never marry
- She "cannot endure to hear tell of a husband"
- Says she will never marry
- Confident and fiery
- Unlike Hero, she is happy to talk in man's presence (and even insult Signor Benedick), linking to stereotypes of the era.
- Beatrice to Benedick- "Nobody marks you"
- Unlike Hero, she is happy to talk in man's presence (and even insult Signor Benedick), linking to stereotypes of the era.
- Independent
- Contrast with Hero- Beatrice's cousin
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