Much Ado About Nothing Act 2.3-3.1 Litblog

Mary Ann MacDonald
Period 5
11 September 2012

Act 2.3-3.1

Summary: In Act 2 Scene 3, Benedick talks to himself and tells himself what kind of women he wants in life and he hides when Don Pedro, Balthasar, and Claudio walk in and talk about how they are going to serenade Hero at her window the next night. Don Pedro and Claudio say that Beatrice is in love with Benedick because they want the hiding Benedick to hear, and how Beatrice is planning to write a letter to Benedick. Benedick falls in love with Beatrice and they plan to have Hero and her servant talk to Beatrice about Benedick. In Act 3 Scene 1, Beatrice overhears Ursula and Hero as they trick her into believing Benedick is in love with her. Beatrice falls in love with Benedick.

Quotation: "She values her wit more highly than anything else, which looks weak by comparison. She’s so in love with herself, she’s incapable of loving anyone else. She can’t even imagine what “love” is."

Quotation Significance: This was said by Hero during their trick in the graden to make Beatrice fall in love with Benedick. They think that she is so in love with herself that she can't love any one else. She can't get past herself to know what love really is.

Reflection: So far, it seems that everyone's trick to make Beatrice and Benedick fall in love is working. They are in love with each other and when they were eavesdropping on Don Pedro and Caludio and Ursula and Beatrice, they realized their own horrible behavior and decide to turn their ways around and the only way to redeem themselves was to be in love with the other person. Benedick realizes that Beatrice has all the virtues of the perfect women, and Beatrices realizes that Benedick is the perfect man. They fall in love with each other to redeem themselves of how they've treated each other and everyone else around them. I hope that they will stay in love, because I think that this way everyone will be happy. 

Discussion Question: Do you think that Benedick and Beatrice will stay in love and figure out what everyone else did to trick them?