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”
don pedro - constructive deception
2.1 “…bring Signior Benedick and the
Lady Beatrice into a mountain of
affection the one with the other”
don pedro limited transformation
5.4 (Benedick) “Prince, thou art
sad; get thee a wife, get thee a
wife”
don pedro - pro marriage
2.1 “She were an excellent wife for Benedick”
don john - anti marriage
2.2 “What life is in that, to be the
death of this marriage?”
don john - outsider
1.3 “I cannot hide
what I am”
1.3 “I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace”
don john destructive deception
3.2 “…the lady is disloyal”
don john - no transformation
5.1 (Don Pedro) “But did my brother set thee on to this?” (Borachio) “Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it” (Don Pedro) “He is composed and framed of treachery:/And fled he is upon this villany”
dogberry - miscommunication - malapropism
3.3 “First, who think you the most
desertless man to be constable?”
dogberry - law and (dis)order
3.3 “If you meet a thief, you
may suspect him, by virtue of
your office, to be no true man”
Claudio - proud
‘Give this rotten orange to your friend’
Claudio -immature
3.2 “If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry her to-morrow in the congregation, where I should wed, there will I shame her”
Claudio-pro-marriage
1.1 “I would scarce trust myself… if Hero would be
my wife”
Friar Francis - constructive deception
4.1 “Your daughter here the princes
left for dead:/Let her awhile be
secretly kept in, And publish it that
she is dead indeed…”
Friar Francis - pro marriage
4.1 “Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-
day/Perhaps is but prolonged: have patience and endure”
hero - obedient
2.1 (Antonio) “Well,
niece, I trust you will
be ruled
by your father”
hero - slandered
3.2 (Don John) “..the lady
is disloyal”
3.2 (Don John) “..the lady
is disloyal”
hero - transformation
3.2 (Don John) “..the lady
is disloyal”
hero - objectified
(Claudio) “Hath Leonato any son, my lord?”
(Don Pedro) “No child but Hero; she’s his only heir”
1.1 (Claudio) “Can the world buy such a jewel?”
Leonato - pro marriage
2.1 “Daughter, remember what
I told you: if the prince
do solicit you in that kind, you
know your answer.”
Leonato - self pitying
2.1 “Daughter, remember what
I told you: if the prince
do solicit you in that kind, you
know your answer.”
Leonato - limited transformation
5.1 (Blames only others; no remorse himself for Hero’s treatment) “Here stand a pair of honourable men;/A third is fled, that had a hand in it./I thank you, princes, for my daughter's death:”
leonato - constructive deception
5.4 “And when I send for you, come
hither mask’d”
leonato - forgiving
5.1 ”Hang her an epitaph
upon her tomb/ And sing it
to her bones, sing it
to-night“
5.1 “Give her the right
you should have given her
cousin,/And so dies my
revenge.”
leonato - patriarchal
2.1 “Count, take of me my
daughter, and with her my
fortunes”
4.1 “Do not live, Hero; do
not open thine eyes:”
- 1 “Hence from her! let her
die. ”
margaret - pro marriage
3.4 “Yet Benedick was such another, and now is he become a man: he swore he would never marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats his meat without grudging: and how you may be converted I know not, but methinks you look with your eyes as other women do.”
Margaret- witty
5.3 “To have no man come over
me! why, shall I always keep
below stairs?”
Margaret - tricked into deception
5.1 (Borachio) “…Don John your brother in-
censed me to slander the Lady Hero, how
you were brought into the orchard and saw
me court Margaret in Hero’s garments, how
you disgraced her, when you should marry
margaret - foil to Hero
3.4 (Hero) “God give me joy to
wear it! for my heart is
exceeding heavy” (Margaret)
“Twill be heavier soon by the
weight of a man” (Hero) “Fie up-
on thee! art not ashamed?”
benedick- changeable
“When I said I would / die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I / were married.” (Act 2 Scene 3)
benedick - pride
“But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not / know me!” (Act 1 Scene 2)
