Much Ado About Nothing - Passion Vs. Reason

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act. As news of the arrival of Benedict and company to Messina was announced, Beatrice immediately started to poke fun at him. She inquired as to who he had become friendly with and then began to say she knew Benedict to be fickle and have a new sworn friend every time that she sees him. This was the first clue to her distaste and also lets one see that she had some sort of interaction with Benedict in the past that left her feeling this way toward him. Soon after this scene, Benedict arrives and almost instantaneously they began to quarrel with each other. They kept on bickering and arguing, never letting the other get the last word in and never giving up any ground in their battle. For each, their cunning wit was the weapon of choice. Judging by the way that they seemed to have been acting, one would guess that there was a genuine hatred between the two, but the way that they carried on makes one must think that there was something more at hand. It might have clued the ...

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he did go to her to dance and no one else. He was starting to show the reader his interest in her and the way he did it under the comfort of the mask assures that he would not to be ridiculed by her if she knew if it was him asking her to dance. This proved the insecurity that he possessed. Though Beatrice gave fewer obvious clues as to her interest in Benedict, one could have guessed that since she always was talking and thinking about him that she must have possessed some kind of feelings for him.

Their feelings were starting to become a little bit more evident as the play further unfolded. It was shown that they interacted frequently and always spoke of the other, even when ...

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