Much Ado About Beatrice
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There are wars in Much Ado About Nothing, but the main one in this comedy by Shakespeare is not one of military concerns or affairs of state. It concerns affairs of the heart, for the main battled staged is the one fought over love between the witty and intelligent Beatrice and Benedick. Beatrice and Benedick have been in love for quite some time, but neither of them wants to admit they love each other. Neither, either, believes in the institution of marriage. Part of the problem with Beatrice trusting Benedick is due to a failed relationship on their part in the past. As Beatrice says when Don Pedro tells her she has lost the heart of Benedick, she replies “Indeed my lord, he lent it me awhile and I gave him use for it—a double heart for his single one. Marry once before he won it of me with false dice; therefore you grace may well say I have lost it” (An 2). Earlier in the play we see Beatrice is still stinging from this past relationship as she tells Benedick “You always end with a jade’s trick; I know you of old” (Shakespeare 128).Beatrice is considered to be the model of female perfection in Shakespeare’s England, a woman whose external beauty equates with her internal beauty. As Jameson (An 2) notes, she is a woman in whom “high intellect and animal spirits meet.” While some see Beatrice as a model of womanhood, others see her as a moody woman whose emotions run rampant. She is smart, independent, and well-rea
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