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Transformation of characters of benedick and beatrice

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Benedick is fascinated by Beatrice but fears her; anguishes over love though he is animated by it; and refuses absolutely to marry until he chooses enthusiastically to do so. Indeed, his volte-face made his name into a common noun meaning, in the words of The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, “a newly married man; especially an apparently confirmed bachelor who marries.” But Benedick and Shakespeare are well aware that the marriage ceremony is only a small part of the change. In Act 2, Scene 3, using Claudio as a bad example of what might happen to a previously normal gentleman, Benedick asks himself, “May I be so converted and still see with these eyes?” (2.3.22; all references to act, scene, and line numbers in the play are to A. R. Humphreys, ed., Much Ado about Nothing [London: Methuen, 1981]).