quotes Flashcards
Beatrice refers to Benedick as a disease
God help the noble Claudio! If he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere a be cured. (A1,S1)
Beatrice never wants to be in love
I thank God and my cold blood I am of your humor for that. I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. (A1,S1)
Margret teases Beatrice that only Benedick will cure her
Benedictus! Why benedictus? You have some moral in this benedictus? (A3,S4)
Benedick finally admits he loves her
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest. (A4,S1)
Beatrices first line about benedick
- showing history
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Benedick is always changing who he is with
- fickly
- people don’t put up with him
BEATRICE: ‘who is his companion now’
Imagination Fantast Judgement Common sense Memory
BEATRICE: ‘four of his five wits’
Beatrice is talking about Benedick but he is masked and can’t answer back
BENEDICK: ‘Why he is a prince’s jester a very dull fool’
Benedick claims that Beatrice is the only woman unaffected by his charms.
But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted. And I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for truly I love none. (A1,S1)
Benedick states that love changes men for the worse
BENEDICK; And such a man as claudio
Benedick describes his perfect women
BENEDICK: ‘noble, an excellent musician’…..line 30
leaves hero, tricked, quickly out of love
CLAUDIO: ‘farewell, therefore Hero’
Claudio’s first line about Hero
CLAUDIO: Benedick, didst thou note of daughter of Signor Leonato’
Benedick has won the argument
Beatrice: you always end with a jade’s trick
Beatrice transformation
3.1 ‘and Benedick, love on; I will recite thee’
Beatrice limited by gender
‘O God that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place’
Beatrice against marriage
‘Not till God make men of some other metal than earth’
war
- oxymoron
foreshadowing
infers they have history
LEONATO: ‘there is a kind of merry war between Signor Bendick and her’
Don Pedro being gulliable
4.1 “Myself, my brother and this grieved count/Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night Talk with a ruffian at her chamber- window/Who hath indeed, most like
a liberal villain,/Confess’d the vile
encounters they have had/A
thousand times in secret”