How Is Beatrice Presented In Much Ado About Nothing

True Love Always Prevails “Much Ado About Nothing” portrays Claudio and Hero as the ‘ideal’ couple while Benedick and Beatrice portray the “realistic” lovers, even though both couples are identified as something different from the other in the end true love prevails. Much Ado About Nothing portrays two different couples one being the ideal couple and the other the realistic couple. It portrays Benedick and Beatrice having the rough, real relationship that has the hard times, but still have unspoken love for the other. Where as it portrays Claudio and Hero as the perfect couple whom both fell in love with each other at first glance. The two relationships compare and contrast in many ways. They compare greatly because both relationships involve love between the two people, but how they
The two differ from Claudio and Hero because they did not fall in love at first glance, they fell in love earlier in their past. We know this because in Act 1, Scene 1, Beatrice makes a remark saying, “I know you of old,” which is a hint that her and Benedick had a past. Due to the remarks that they made to each other we can assume that they did not end well. In Act 1, Scene 1, Benedick and Beatrice were in an argument and were throwing insults at each other. Some remarks between the two were when Benedick said to Beatrice, “God keep your Ladyship still in that mind, so some gentleman or other shall ’scape a predestinate scratched face” and Beatrice’s response, “Scratching could not make it worse an ’twere such a face as yours were” (I.I.115-120). Those two comments from Benedick and Beatrice about the other are just an example of their relationship, and it was no where ideal or perfect. they would called one another a “skirmish of wit” or “lady disdain.” Beatrice and Benedick showed a lot of hatred towards each other, but the one thing they did not show was affection, and both of them mocked the idea of