much ado

• "kill claudio"


  beatrice - she cant do it herself because shes a woman - benedick agrees to prove his love for her, opposes everything he said before
• "i was about to protest i loved you"


  beatrice - confessing her love
• "taming my wild heart to thy loving hand"


  beatrice - animalistic language and is offended by personal attacks in her gulling
• "with a good leg and a good foot"


  beatrice - bawdy humour example -> idea of perfect man
• "adams son are my brethren"


  beatrice - sees herself as a man (breaks fourth wall, women couldnt be on stage) - cant marry anyone she feels similar to

  • bawdy humour
• "civil as an orange"


  beatrice - 'seville orange'-bitter referring to claudio
• "a bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours"


  beatrice - outspoken and agressive
• "i had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me"


  beatrice - cynical view on love
• "but how many hath he killed? for i promise to eat all of his killing"


  beatrice - mocking benedick - he isnt "manly" enough
• "merry war"


  relationship between benedick and beatrice
• "so rare a gentleman as signor benedick"


  hero - praising benedick - more outspoken in the presence of women (those of lower class)
• "some cupid kills with arrows,some with traps"


  hero - 'caught her' - compares beatrice to an animal, describes married women as 'trapped'
• "thou and i are too wise to woo peacefully"


  benedick - still have the same relationship as before with beatrice- wit and jokes
• "for my lord lack-beard there"


  benedick - insults claudios masculinity parallels A2S3
• "i will be horribly in love with her"


  benedick - against his previous words - character shift
• "when i said i would die a bachelor,i didnt think i should live till i were married"


  benedick - opposition to character at the start
• "i will live a bachelor"


  benedick - states his views on marriage- hates idea of love
• "which is the lady i must seize upon"


  claudio - 'seize upon' - possessive
• "pardon, goddess of the knight"


  claudio - refers to hero back to her pure and innocent state
• "you seem to me as dian in her orb .. but you are more intemperate in your blood than venus"


  claudio - dian -> chastity, venus ->sex

  • appearence vs reality but still compares her to a goddess
• "she knows the heat of a luxurious bed" "approved wanton"


  claudio - uses harsh language, shames her
• "rotten orange"


  claudio - oranges rot from the inside out (appearence vs reality) , objectifies her

  • oranges - given by prostitutes in the elizabethan era
• "fair young hero" 


  claudio - innocence and ideals of beauty standard
• "figure of a lamb, feats of a lion"


  describes claudio
• "can the world buy such a jewel"


  claudio - 'buy' - possesive, courtly love, 'jewel'-priceless
• "even she,leonatos hero, your hero, everymans hero"


  don john - irony of her name 'hero', triplet emphasises
• "the lady is disloyal"


  don john - turns heros actions into identity, her being a 'cuckhold'(mens biggest fear)
• "i cannot hide what i am"


  don john - feels sorry for himself, honest and lonely, outside society, different
• "i had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace"


  don john
• "plain dealing villain"


  don john - malevolant,trapped
• "what fools betroths himself to unquietness"


  don john - uses his discomfort to cause mischief
• "when shall we set the savage bulls horns on sensible benedicks head?"


  don pedro - contrast between savage and sensible , cuckholdery
• "i stand dishonoured that have gone about to link my dear friend to a common stale"


  don pedro - philia , harsh language to describe hero
• "i will join thee to disgrace her"


  don pedro - philia, publicly shaming hero
• "do not live hero,do not open thine eyes" 


  leonato - believes claudio and blames hero even though shes his daughter, patriarchal society
• "by my troth niece,thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue"


  leonato - wit will never find her a husband
• "daughter, remember what i told you"


  leonato - patriarchal society, she does whatever her father says
• "the devil my master"


  borachio - even his own allies know don john is wicked
• "a contaminated stale,such one as hero"


  borachio - ruin and damage reputations
• "write god first,for god defend but god should go before such villains"


  dogberry - religious importance, comedic