"A MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS"

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Beatrice and Benedick's journey from hostility to love was quite long and difficult. In much ado about nothing, most of the characters had interesting relationship with each other. For example hero and Claudio, who were deeply in love. Another example was of friendship between Benedick, Claudio and Don Pedro. But the relationship between Benedick and Beatrice was different than others. From the very beginning they started mocking and cursing each other .Benedick on one hand is a smart good looking and a funny guy. He is very witty and always has to anyone's comments. On the other hand there is Beatrice who is life - giving, energetic, witty, intelligent, fun loving but lonely .she has no patience and is a woman who rages against the masculine solidarity which can so easily destroy a woman's reputation. Beatrice is the play witty heroine. She is mainly noted for her firm opposition to marriage and for her verbal dueling with Benedick . Her first comment in the play was asking a series of question about Benedick which reveals an interest which herself may be unaware of.

In their relationship, they hated each other. Their personalities were so similar, that it made them sick of each other, but the similarities in their personalities is also what brought them together. We can make many assumptions on Beatrice and Benedick's relationship and how it may have grown throughout the whole play. Both of them are essences, they are in progenitors of the clichés of the women – hater turned lover and ice queen turned golden heart .Both of them experience a very similar sequence of events, both work with their respective tutee's in love in the same way, and both come to realize their love for each other through tricks played upon them by their own friends. In this, Benedick and Beatrice are really the true soul-mates of the story in that they truly seem to be of the same cloth and of the same heart - two halves of the same whole. Their change from enmity to love covers the course of the entire play and, in many ways, is much more engaging, funny, entertaining, and ultimately rewarding than that of Claudio and Hero.


From all these examples we can see how both Benedick and Beatrice changed when they found out they both love each other. Their love made them think so differently and were in a position that could even sacrifice anything in the name of their love. I think that their story culminates in a “marriage of true minds”- a union of equals. Their final kiss in the play symbolizes that they have learned to share and how those two stone hearted people melted when they loved each other.