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Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain – are you yet living?
Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Sourtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence.”

Benedick and Beatrice are equally matched in wit and intelligence. This suggests they’re well-suited and hints at their future relationship.

“O, my lord, when you went onward on this ended action, I looked upon her with a soldier’s eye, that liked, but had a rougher task in hand, than to drive liking to the name of love; but now I am returned and that war-thoughts have left their places vacant, in their rooms come thronging soft and delicate desires, all prompting me how fair young Hero is, saying I liked her ere I went to wars”

Claudio contrasts being a soldier with falling in love. This shows the different sides to his character.

“Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?”

Like Benedick, Don John criticises marriage. Many of the male characters are suspicious of women.

“Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?”

Like Benedick, Don John criticises marriage. Many of the male characters are suspicious of women.

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BEATRICE: “Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave
him use for it, a double heart for his single one:
marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,
therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.”
Summary:
CLAUDIOL: “Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she
will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere
she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo
her, rather than she will bate one breath of her
accustomed crossness.”

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“Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signor Leonato?”

(Claudio, Scene 1) The characters observe all details and discuss them with each other, which can later lead to misunderstanding

“I whipt me behind the arras, and there heard it agreed upon that the prince should woo Hero for himself, and having obtained her, give her to Count Claudio”

(Borachio, Scene 3)    Borachio overheard Don Pedro’s plan. Even though Borachio understood it the right way, Antonio misinterpreted it, thinking Don Pedro wants to woo Hero for himself.

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1. “To praise him more than ever man did merit.”
“But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick, to wish him wrestle with affection.” (Act 3, Scene 1)

Hero and Ursula trick Beatrice into thinking Benedick loves him.

2. “Yet is this no charm for the toothache.... I have studied eight or nine wise words to speak to you, which these hobby-horses must not hear.” (Act 3, Scene 2)

Benedick tries to hide his feelings for Beatrice even though all of his friends know and tease him about it.

3. “I came hither to tell you, and circumstances shortened, for she has been too long a talking of, the lady is disloyal” (Act 3, Scene 2)

Don John accuses Hero of being disloyal and not being a virgin.

4. “If I see anything tonight why I should not marry her, tomorrow in the congregation, where I should wed, there will I shame her.” (Act 3, Scene 2)

Claudio quickly changes his opinion about Hero and begins to doubt her from the false words of Don John.

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1. “I am sure you know him well enough.” “Not I, believe me.”

(Beatrice and Benedick, Scene 1) - Benedick is trying to make Beatrice to believe that he doesn’t know Benedick so that she will tell him something about himself.

2. “Are you not Signior Benedick?” “You know me well - I am he.”

(Don John and Claudio, Scene 1) - Don John wants to trick Claudio by pretending that he is talking to Benedick about Don Pedro’s wrongdoing

3. “Bait the hook well - this fish will bite.”

(Claudio, Scene 3) - Claudio, Leonato, and Don Pedro all decide to trick Benedick into thinking that Beatrice is in love with him for them to end up together

4. “Go, then, find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro…” - lines 32-49 -

(Borachio, Scene 2) - Don John and Borachio come up with a plan to deceive Claudio about Hero to break off their marriage

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BENEDICK

Do you question me, as an honest man
should do, for my simple true judgment? Or would
you have me speak after my custom, as being a
professed tyrant to their sex? (1.1.162-165)

Benedick is going against women, but he has a simple sense of judgment of (particular) woman.  He has two different opinions about woman.

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Claudio

Can the world buy such a jewel

This shows how women were portrayed as a possession.

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BENEDICK

The savage bull may - but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull’s horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write ‘Here is good horse to hire let them signify under my sign ‘ Here you may see Benedick the married man.’

-> This shows that men with unfaithful wives were referred to as cuckolds. It shows male being distrustful of women because they were perceived as weak when they were cheated.

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LEONATO

I will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the better prepared for an answer, if peradventure this be true.

-> This shows that woman was not given choice in her own marriage

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"I find here that Don Pedro hath bestowed much honor on a young Florentine called Claudio." (Leonato, Scene 1)

"Truly the lady
fathers herself.—Be happy, lady, for you are like
an honorable father." (Don Pedro, Scene 1)

"If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn. [To Don John.] Let me bid you welcome, my lord, being reconciled to the Prince your brother, I owe you all duty." (Leonato, scene 1)

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Act 3, Scene 2

“ Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard” (Leonato)

“ Nay, a’ rubs himself with civet. Can you smell him out by that?” (Don Pedro)

Benedick shaved and has applied perfume  in order to impress the women he loves

“’Tis even so... they meet” ( Claudio 70-72 )

Claudio uses a metaphor to show that Benedick and Beatrice have a hostile relationship, thinking they will become kinder to each other after falling in love.

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BEATRICE

It is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’

-> This shows that woman had to obey her father.

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BEATRICE

I am sure you know him well enough.

BENEDICK

Not I, believe me

-> This shows that woman was harder to deceive than man.

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ANTONIO

In faith, she’s too crust

-> This shows woman was expected to be modest.

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BALTHASAR

Sigh no more, ladies sigh no more, men were deceivers ever, one foot in sea and one on shore………..The fraud of men was ever so, since summer first was leavy

This shows  how male characters often don't trust women but it is men which cannot be trusted

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DON PEDRO

Even she; Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero:

CLAUDIO

Disloyal?

DON JOHN

The word is too good to paint out her wickedness; I
could say she were worse: think you of a worse
title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till
further warrant: go but with me to-night, you shall
see her chamber-window entered, even the night
before her wedding-day: if you love her then,
to-morrow wed her; but it would better fit your honour
to change your mind.

This shows how a woman who is not a virgin before marriage is seen in an extremely negative light; someone who may have been in love, such as Claudio, instantly is disgusted and will not marry a woman as such in fear of tarnishing reputation.

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"Go you to the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned Claudio" (Borachio, scene 2)

"I should think this a full, but that the white bearded fellow speaks it. knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence." (Benedick, scene 3)

"No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days: your grace is too costly to wear every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me – I was born to speak all mirth and no matter” (Beatrice, scene 1)

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"Go but with me tonight, you shall see her chamber window entered, even the night before her wedding day. If you love her then, tomorrow wed her. But it would better fit your honor to change your mind." (Don John, scene 2)

"What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true? Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much? Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! No glory lives behind the back of such. And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee, Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand." (Beatrice, scene 1)

"If I see anything to-night why I should not marry her
to-morrow, in the congregation where I should wed, there will I
shame her." (Claudio, scene 2)