What difference does the audience notice in Beatrice's behaviour in extract one and extract two

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What difference does the audience notice in Beatrice's behaviour in extract one and extract two Beatrice is shown as a woman who’s not scared to show her feelings.  ‘Yea and I will weep a while longer,’ automatically creates the impression that she will continue to cry, even after Benedick has noticed that she’s crying – she’s not embarrassed. However, she could also be saying this to spite Benedick since it was because of his friend, Claudio that she’s in this situation of grievance in the first place. Beatrice starts to hint that she needs help with the situation at hand, ‘Ah how much might the man deserve of me that would right her.’ This means that the man who cleared her cousin’s name would mean so much to her. Benedick begins to volunteer, but Beatrice says it’s not for him to do, ‘It is a man’s office, but not yours,’ this could plainly suggest that perhaps Benedick wasn’t man enough for the job. This didn’t do anything to stop Benedick’s eagerness to help; in fact it ignited his willingness because he then confessed that he loved her. At this point, Beatrice is very confused, ‘It were as possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.’ She’s going around in circles, puzzling herself, declaring that she doesn’t love him, but she still tells him ‘but believe me not.’ Beatrice is not ready to admit anything, she wants to concentrate on one thing and that’s her cousin, this wasn’t the right time for Benedick to admit his love for her. ‘I am sorry for my cousin,’ is her way of going back to the original subject, she believes that her cousin is wronged. By using the word ‘sorry’ could infer that she feels pity towards Hero because it wasn’t her fault. Beatrice doesn’t believe that Benedick truly loves her; she says to
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him, ‘will you not eat your word?’ This means that she fully doesn’t trust that he’ll keep his word, since earlier on in the play, she’s made reference to the fact that Benedick has broken her heart before, what’s to stop him from doing that all over again? Benedick still insists that he’s madly in love with her, so she gives in. ‘You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to protest I loved you.’ Beatrice says to him, that he’s stopped her from doing what she wanted; she was going to declare her love for him. ...

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