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Shakespeare-Much ado about nothing, analysis of major characters
Title: Shakespeare-Much ado about nothing, analysis of major characters
Category: Literature / European Literature
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Shakespeare-Much ado about nothing, analysis of major characters
Major Characters
Beatrice
Beatrice is the niece of Leonato, a wealthy governor of Messina. Though she is close friends with her cousin Hero, Leonato's daughter, the two could not be less alike. Whereas Hero is polite, quiet, respectful, and gentle, Beatrice is feisty, cynical, witty, and sharp. Beatrice keeps up a "merry war" of wits with Benedick, a lord and soldier from Padua. The play suggests that she was once in love with Benedick but …showed first 75 words of 1035 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1035 total…joyous comedy. Perhaps his exchange with Beatrice at the masked ball--in which he proposes marriage to her and she jokingly refuses him, taking his proposal as mere sport--pains him; perhaps he is truly in love with Beatrice. The text does not give us a conclusive explanation for his melancholy, nor for his fascination with dissembling. This uncertainly about his character helps to make him one of the most thought-provoking characters in the play.
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