Scene Two of Much ado about nothing

Scene one going into Act Two

This is the point of the play where Claudio has seen Hero and prepares to profess his love for Hero to leonato Whom has heard of from his Brother Anotonio.

In disbelief Leonato replies saying 'We will hold it as a dream till it appear itself'. Leonato then seems welcoming of this news, that his daugther might finally be wed and to a good gentleman too, but hearing this news jst doeasn't seem good enough instead he also says ' I will acquaint my daugther, with that she amy be better prepared for an answer'.
From then on Act One Scene 3: the Evil then start to conspire and the story evolves into becoming that of a more sinister one. The tension scenes begin from this point onwards.

- It seems that for every happy beginning,  evil must be intertwined. - Don John, Borachio, and Conrade conspire. As it seems upon hearing news of some potential escalation of happiness they are the flames that decide and start constructing ways to ruin everything.

 Act Two:


At the start it seems Beatrice has some bad instinct about Don John, though unaware of his true personality and intention. Then from there starts to compare him to Benedick.
Her reasons for not liking Don John remaining or being too quiet and always to himself. Whereas Signior Benedick more on the lines of being the more talkative jumpy.
- They both seem to have traits in them - Count John and Signior Benedict that is compared by Beatrice, obviously not taking a liking to both there characters.

My thoughts about beatrice is that her character is portrayed as arrogant yet fiesty and so sure of herself and her jugdement of others.

Also seems as somewhat of a sly underlying event hapenning at the start of Act Two Scene One, where beatrice, unknowingly describes Benedick, despite despising his character. As is the same with Benedick when he describes Beatrice - unknowingly in the woman he wishes for himself he describes her in detail, the woman he hopes god will give him.

when he starts to contemplate about the conversation between him and Claudio about his wishes to marry Hero. Benedict thinks back to the feeling Claudio had shown, and i quote:-
Scene 3- "yet i am well, but till in graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, thats certain; wise or i'll none, virtuous or i'll never cheapen her; fair or i'll never look on her, mild, or come not near me; noble or not i for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it please God". In the same way  found that Beatrice also describes the man she hopes to find this just becomes clearer as the play moves into the other acts. she hopes to marry.

Act Two Scene One- Beatrice Quoting - "What should i do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth; an he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him. Therefore in earnest of the bear'ard and lead his apes into hell". When Beatrice says this speech, I thought it indirectly related to her describing Benedict.

Within this Act is also showing us a glimpse of how quickly ones jealousy can overtake and blind their jugdement of another. Going back in Scene Two, where Claudio was jealous ( on the contruction of Don John's lies), in thinking that Don Pedro took Hero for himself. The expressive emotins he seems to show at that point in time are indeed describe by beatrice as 
"The count is niether sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor wel; but civil Count - civil as an orange ans something of that jealous complexion".

Act Two Scene Two
In my opinion he loved her so much he reacted in jeaousy but in loving her also kept himself silent when approached by Don Pedro and Hero unaware that there alliance was made. It seems that even in obvious jealous anger the way he misconstrued the situation, to me it seems that he was willing to sacrifice his feelings of how he felt for Hero in that instant, for the love he had for his trusted friend when thinking that.

Thus I answer in name of Benedick,

But hear this ill news in with the ears of Claudio.

'Tis certain so: the prince wooes for himself.

Friendship is constant in al other things

Save in the ofice and affairs of love:

Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.

Let every eye negotiate for itself,

And trust no agent:for beauty is a witch

Against whose charms faith melthe into blood

This is an accident of hourly proof,

Which i mistrusted not. Farewell therefore Hero.

At that point in the scene we begin to see that he does indeed get fooled easily(his mind like that of a child that couls easily be thwarted) and just by the words of another i.e Don John and Borachio.