The character of Beatrice is that she is a noisy and informal woman who is always fighting and giving insults to Benedick. She is a woman who hides her true colours and she says things that she doesn’t really mean. She is a woman who says she doesn’t want to fall in love and she talks to men. In the play there is a speech where she is flirting with the Prince and Claudio. Talking the point of Beatrice is that she doesn’t think she flirts although this is what she the arguing is about. Margaret is asked to go to the living room and Beatrice is talking to the Prince and Claudio.
This shows that she flirts with the men and she says that she doesn’t want to fall in love. Beatrice is a woman who is always fighting; in the play she says, “He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.” This means he keeps his friends but like the fashion of his hat it always changes with the next block. She is always insulting Benedick and she is arguing with him; so when she insults him he insults her. She is a ‘noisy woman’ which was opposite to what a woman shall be in Shakespeare’s time and at the masked ball she says Benedick is a coward and an idiot; she says they will never fall in love. But she keeps to her word because at the masked ball the prince asks her to marry him but she refuses, maybe because she is in love with Benedick. This shows she can be kind, she lets him down gently and says he is too good for her; so she doesn’t marry him and say ‘no’.
Benedick is not a man who is interested in the arguments and he ends the argument quickly. Nevertheless he thinks he is superior to Beatrice; and he is the person who doesn’t like arguing so much but he defends himself when Beatrice insults him. But when he defends himself he ends the argument quickly and scared Beatrice might win. He is a kind and generous person who speaks out what he wishes to say. In the play Benedick says, “I would my horse had the speed of your tongue.” He is ending the argument Beatrice started and defending himself whilst ending the argument. Nevertheless Beatrice carries on the argument, even though he is trying to stop it. So Benedick is a gentleman; he ignores some of the things Beatrice says to him but then he stops the arguing. Also Beatrice and Benedick say that they will never fall in love and get married. Beatrice always insults him and at the ball she calls Benedick an idiot.
The other characters think Beatrice and Benedick are in love and they want them to become together, as one. Leonato mentions her status and that she has no dowry so she cannot get the status of a married person. They are in love but they do not want to show this to the rest of the world. They are hiding there love and true feelings for each other behind love taps. We also get the impression that they have hurt each other in the past. The others in the play are trying to get Beatrice and Benedick together. Also the other characters realise the truth between Beatrice and Benedick and they get these two together. But Beatrice said she doesn’t want to fall in love and get married because she is an orphan. So she is not bothered about marriage because every woman has to have a dowry but she hasn’t got one because she has no father. So she will not have a dowry. But as the play progresses she falls in love and they get married. But before they fall in love the character of Beatrice towards Benedick is very bad because she insults him and they always argue. As Beatrice falls in love with Benedick he says, “We’ll be friends first.” Then Beatrice says, “In faith I will go.” Benedick says, “Tarry good Beatrice. By this hand I love thee.” These quotation shows that they are in love and after this they start falling in love properly and not behind love a tap which can be turned on and off. Also the other characters in the play get Beatrice and Benedick together by telling each other that Beatrice and Benedick are in love and they truly love each other, and pretend Beatrice and Benedick cannot hear them even though they know they are there. In the play it says that when Beatrice and Benedick are at the scene where Leonato, Don Pedro and Claudio are talking that Beatrice and Benedick love each other but hide their love behind love taps.
When they admit they are in love, they are more truly in love than Hero and Claudio because they show there affections for each other in a different ways. Also Benedick and Beatrice have been in love before but they separated and now they are back together with more love for each other. They can argue and then they still will be in love. Before they were truly in love they argued and that is what made there relationship so that meant they can get on well with each other. Also there relationship is stronger because Claudio liked her because she was good looking but Benedick liked Beatrice because she was fun to be with and they could sort out there problems together. They have equal amount of intelligent. Beatrice tests Benedick’s love for her by asking Benedick to kill Claudio because he has insulted Hero on the day of her wedding and he has accused her of something very serious. So this means if they get married Beatrice may be a very manipulative wife. But Benedick cannot do this because he is a kind and good man.
Benedick believes that Hero is innocent from the claim that has been suspected, when Claudio doesn’t. This tells us that they have a different character and Benedick respect and can judge a person better from their past deeds; by asking himself would she do this or not? So Benedick believes that Hero has not done this. This is because Beatrice tells Benedick that Hero has not slept with someone else and Benedick believes Beatrice because he is a trustworthy and kind person. Also Claudio is not trust worthy because he believes everything other men say. He doesn’t believe that Hero is innocent even though he loves her. But Benedick does because he is kind and in the play it says, “Two of them have the very best of honour; and if their wisdoms be misled in this, the practise of it lives in John the Bastard, whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.” This means that Benedick believes Beatrice and he thinks that Don John has made this happen and made Hero and Claudio separate from each other. Benedick believes Beatrice that Hero has not slept with anyone.
When Beatrice and Benedick are finally caught they admit they love very freely and they write poems about each other. They also write letters to each other and they think independently and they carry there own beliefs and there own mind to why they are in love. But as they tell everyone they are in love they get married very quickly, so this shows they are truly in love and they wanted to get married to each other so they got married quickly. So Beatrice and Benedick are a true in love couple who will still be able to handle arguments. Nevertheless as soon as Beatrice gets married she is a quieter woman and she doesn’t insult or argue with Benedick. She stops talking in the rest of the play. Shakespeare’s audience would have thought that this is a good thing because a woman was supposed to be quiet like Hero. When she was alone and not spoken her feelings about Benedick; she was very loud for a woman and she always argued and insulted Benedick. In the play Benedick says, “They swore that you were almost sick for me.” Then Beatrice says, “They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.” This means that they really love each other and they cannot live without each other. This quote from the play shows that they are truly in love.
Considering the fighting at the begging of the play I think that Beatrice and Benedick are made in heaven because they have over come some very bad times. They have broken up before but the fighting means that they can’t leave each other alone; nevertheless they have still got married and they are truly in love with each other. Also when they used to argue at the beginning of the play they argued but when they argued this made there relationship stronger because they knew that even if they argued they still would love each other. Also they have over come a lot of difficult problems in the play but still they are a match made in heaven for these reasons. Also they both talk to themselves, they like to argue but they still love each other; nevertheless neither admit they are in love. They cannot leave each other alone which shows they are affectionate and they are both upper class, so there are no problems between there class and they are both very posh and intelligent. But I think there marriage is a match made in Heaven because they really get on well with each other and they understand each others feelings and they are both good people and respect each other a lot.
After Beatrice is married she never speaks in the play again. I think that this is good and bad because she will not insult or argue with Benedick. But this is not very good as well because Benedick fell in love with a woman who talked a lot and she never talks after the marriage so this may be a problem. Beatrice stops talking in the rest of the play. The audience in Shakespeare’s time would have thought that this was good because a woman should be quiet, not loud.
But she may be doing this only in the play. But this may be a set back because she talked a lot before and this may be something that Benedick likes or doesn’t like; so she will have to adjust herself to if Benedick likes Beatrice talking a lot or not. But Beatrice was a loud mouth and this may affect the way Benedick loves her because Benedick liked a loud woman and this is one of the reasons he married her. Also this may not affect their relationship because Benedick may like Beatrice this way after marriage; so she is not flirting with other men like she used to do before her marriage. Also so there are not as may arguments as there was before marriage. I think Beatrice has realised her responsibilities as a wife and that is the reason why she doesn’t speak in the play again.