Ivett Gelencser
ENG 266
Shakespeare-Much Ado About Nothing
Blog 2
1.p 14, #1
Benedick, the willful Lord of Padua is a man who is masking his fear of commitment with engaging in a competition with Beatrice to outsmart out insult the other, but in the meantime even Benedicks friends notice that he has deeper feelings for her. He obviously has deeper feelings for her as it turns out in later chapters when he confesses that he loves her.
2.p. 42, #1
I think that Beatrice and Benedick are perfect for each other because all the hate they are showing in the beginning is really because they love each other they just don't know what the other really feels so all they show is hate which changes later on in the story. Don Pedro asks if Beatrice will marry him but she won't accept which of course offends Don Pedro. Leonanto's response is that if they were married for a week they would talk themselves mad but I think they will be just fine. After finding out their love for each other, now they are two completely different people towards each other.
3.p.25, #4
Benedick is a soilder who is apparently carfee and immune to love but he is not. At first unknowlingly he falls in love with Beatrice and later he is sure of it and says that he is. In the inside he really thinks that Beatrice is a pretty woman and he really falls in love with her later in the play.
1- About diary written in the evening of Act 1
Benedick is really pretending to be carefree and immune to love because nobody can really be immune to it. He thinks that all marriage is coping with one another and its just hard work and one must be committed to it and he does not want that. He also stereotyes women, that they are all worthless especially Beatrice.
2- Before Benedick went away to war
Before the war Benedick thinks thats its foolish to fall in love with a women beause he is going away for the war anyway. He thinks that it's no use to make promises to women or them to you when you no one even knows when you'll be back from the war or if you'll be back at all.
3 comments:
Wow, Ivett. You answered ALL 3 questions. You should only answer ONE in about 250+ words.
Also, the idea of Benedick's diary is that you would write it in HIS voice (see Christina A.'s blog).
hey so im commeting on the second question that you answered since you did answer everything lol i agree about betrice and benedick having that love for one another from the start i also said the same thing. good write up
a true romantic. you really think they will work out? hm..i think in a perfect world they would. in the real world they'd both be in couples therapy.
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