“Saw you no more? Marked you not how her sister
Began to scold and raise up such a storm
That mortal ears might hardly endure the din?”
-The Taming of the Shrew, Act 1 Scene 1, lines 142-144
“You must not, sir, mistake my niece.
There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her. They never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them.”
-Much Ado about nothing, Act 1 scene 1, lines 59-62
These quotes are about two women with strikingly different behavior. The first quote is about Beatrice, the heroine of Much Ado about Nothing. The second quote is about Katherine, the shrew, in The Taming of the Shrew, characterized by her violent actions towards her suitors. Although these two woman’s actions are drastically different they are united in their aversion to marriage and their eventual marriage by the end of the play.
Beatrice and Katherine’s strikingly different behavior were influenced primarily by the people around them. The following people influenced their actions, their father figures, friends, and finally their spouses.
Firstly, Beatrice and Katherine’s strikingly different behaviors were influenced by their father figures. Beatrice has a healthy relationship with Leonardo, her uncle, who she lives with, that Katherine lacks with her own father. There is no mention of her parents, and it is safe to assume that Leonardo is the only father figure in her life. In much ado about nothing, the characters run around and get engaged and then married
This essay is an exploration of the play Much Ado About Nothing, and the gender roles involved in the deceit and trickery that transpire and develop throughout the story. As gender is one of the main themes in the plot, identifying the expected gender roles of the characters, and how the contrast between characters highlights these expected roles. In Shakespeare 's time, known as the Elizabethan Era, men and women’s roles and expectations were starkly different. Elizabethan women, no matter what social class, were inferior to men. A female’s role in the family was to get married so they could increase their family 's wealth and power and to produce heirs. Men, on the other hand, had all of the power within a household. Males were expected
Sam and Eric, the twins that never seem to be apart, always honest, and always working towards the greater good. After Piggy’s tragic death, Jack takes Samneric and they become part of the tribe that he created. However, in Chapter Twelve when Ralph goes to talk to them, they warn him to leave or he might get in trouble.
The women in A Tale of Two Cites behave in extremely opposing ways. Lucie Manette is a frail young woman. She constantly becomes overwhelmed and faints at even the thought of danger. She has never been exposed to poverty nor suffered through severe hardships. Lucie is genteel; she is constantly pampered and always has people looking out for her. She is constantly being treated like a small child; "she softly laid the patient [Lucie] on a sofa, and tended her with great skill and gentleness" (23). Madame Defarge is a ruthless, bloodthirsty, vengeful, and poor woman. She is best described by Ms. Pross as "the wife of Lucifer" (336). She readily cuts off a man's head and "she never missed [an execution]" (342). Madame Defarge's sadistic nature is seen best during the execution of Foulon, an aristocrat. She tortures him, "as a cat might have done to a mouse" and his head is impaled "upon a pike, with grass enough in the mouth for all of Saint Antoine to
Comparing Shakespeare’s Katharina, of The Taming of the Shrew and Beatrice, of Much Ado About Nothing
In the play of the crucible by Arthur Miller was about the witch trial in salem, massachute. A teenage girl named Abigail fell in love with a married guy named John Proctor. Abigail is doing everything to win John Proctor heart and be john proctor wife. Everything went wrong and she started to lie by accusing innocent people for being witches. Innocent people are getting hang up because of Abigail and her friends lies. The author's purpose of this play is to inform the audience about what happened during salem witch trials.
What is the secret of perfect parenting ? Numerous parents may have different assumptions , of what precisely are the ideal goals to raise a child are. The Walls’s family had a unique perspective on “parenting”. Several readers may agree they had various flaws, by not giving their children the basic needs . Though despite all of their flaws , they did teach their kids valuable life lessons and self love.
In Shakespeare’s comedic play “Much Ado about Nothing” there are many unique characters but the character Beatrice sticks out for many reasons. Beatrice is not like the other characters in “Much Ado about Nothing.” She “rebels” against the idea of conformity and humility that was prevalent during that time period for women; therefore, she fit the archetype of
“There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast--Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! Said the head. You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s a no go? Why things are the way they are?” (page 206)
“At the sight of the words I love you the desire to stay alive had welled up in him, and the taking of minor risks suddenly seemed stupid.”
Shakespeare’s play ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ has two main female characters, Beatrice and Hero, who are cousins. Both appear to be completely different in the beginning of the play but, as things progress and their characters develop, there are also some very obvious similarities between them. Hero and Beatrice have a very close relationship; they are best friends. Leonato is Hero’s father but Beatrice has no parents, which gives her greater freedom. Where Hero is polite, quiet, respectful and gentle, Beatrice is feisty, cynical, witty, and sharp.
In this scene, we see many elements of typical “brujeria”. The doll making, the hair, the song Ultima sang and the remedy she made. In most instances, making a doll to look like a specific person and wish to do harm to it believing it will make whomever the doll resembles feel pain is known as witchcraft. We see Ultima make three dolls to resemble the three witches who cursed Lucas however the only harm she wishes to do them is that which they tried to do to Lucas, “then Ultima spoke to the three women. ‘You have done evil,’ she sang, ‘but good is stronger than evil, and what you sought to do will undo you. . .’
The most common element found within both pieces of literature is that both women seem to be greatly selfish.
In this Shakespearean comedy ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ two similarly obstinate characters of Beatrice and Benedick are presented between the rather normal relationship of characters Hero and Claudio. Shakespeare presents Beatrice and Benedick’s obstinacy towards the rather obligatory act of marriage and also their particularly similar personalities that cause reason for their familiar act of squabbling; he does this whilst also presenting two characters that are completely interested in marriage and who are hardly intellectually capable of squabbling in a similar manner. As the play unfolds both characters remain combative with one another but as love becomes the better of them, they begin to reveal that somewhat secretive sensitivity
Beatrice is very different than the common expectation of women by people looking back on Shakespeare’s period and of the public of Shakespeare’s time in many ways. As
people through the relationships of the story's main characters. The lovely and yet poisonous Beatrice, the