much ado about nothing quotes

'If we can do this, cupid is no longer an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods.'

Don Pedro -

• gulling of Beatrice and Benedick

• conditional (if we can do this)

• risky, meddling, playing with fate

• unknown outcome

'Can the world buy such a jewel?'

claudio -

• about hero

• link quotation=rotton orange

• Jewels are expensive, rare, status symbol

• virgin, rich

• accessory, he wears Hero like a piece of jewelry

• keep her in a case/box, restriction

'Leonatos hero, your hero, everyone's hero'

Don John -

• When Don John gulls Claudio into thinking Hero is a prostitute, this will destroy Hero's nobility and status. Don John only made this plan to spite Leonato, Don Pedro, and Claudio.

• It implies the hero is promiscuous

• tripartite sentence

'nobody marks you'

beatrice -

• to benedick

• notices you

• ironic because she is noticing him

• link to title

'kill claudio'

beatrice -

• after Hero's public shaming at the wedding

• similar to Lady Macbeth's character

• shocking moment

'she speaks poniards and every word stabs'

benedick -

• to beatrice

• to stab in French = poniard

• poniard - type of dagger

• praise for being smart and witty which are highly valuable traits

• critisised for being compared to a man fighter. unfemenine

'o villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this'

dogberry -

• to borachio

• malapropism (meant to say damnation)

' i'd rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace'

don john the bastard -

• metaphor

• canker-unwanted growth

• nice rose-controlled, precious, pretty, well looked after, and well loved

• A rose is beautiful and restricted, whereas a canker is ugly and free

'Signor Montanto'

beatrice -

• mounts onto lots of women

• promiscuous

• fencing move-upthrust

• social climber

• link quotation=lady distain

look at quotation bank

'the figure of a lamb but the feats of a lion'

he is young and small and unassuming, but in the war he has achieved that of a larger, stronger hunter

hunter motif

'You always end with a jade's trick.'

She knows him well

A jade is a pathetic horse

A jades trick is when a jade suddenly stops in their routine

cowardly

'the savage bull will bear the yoke'

bulls pull on a yoke, it is a burden

calling marriage a burden

'i am a plain-dealing villain.'

He is openly, or "plainly," villainous without pretense. He says this to contrast with the duplicity of other characters, while simultaneously revealing his own character as a jealous, resentful, and discontented figure who is honest about his bad nature. His honesty is what makes him a complex character; he is honest about his villainy but dishonest in his actions, fueled by bitterness over his illegitimacy and a failed rebellion against his brother. 

'beauty is a witch'

metaphor

beauty is a distraction from their personality

beauty is trickery

a03 - In Renaissance times, men would hand out misogynist leaflets e.g. 'a beautiful woman is costly (gold digger) and no good housewife '.

metaphorical outburst

'one foot on sea, one foot on shore'

shore=domestic, women and children

sea=war

Men want the best of both worlds

'refuse me, hate me, torture me to death'

when hero is being accused of being unfaithful

tripartite sentence

imperative verbs

women were relativley powerless, she realises that her word against that of three men is futile.