Much Ado About Nothing — Quotes

14 quotes — Honour & Shame with full 6-part analysis

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2
PROGRESS

Kill Claudio

IMPERATIVE MONOSYLLABLESCAESURA & STRUCTURAL DISRUPTION

Beatrice · Act 4, Scene 1

4
REGRESS

O, what men dare do! What men may do! What men daily do, not knowing what they d…

ANAPHORIC TRICOLONPUBLIC PERFORMATIVITY

Claudio · Act 4, Scene 1

5
PROGRESS

O that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace

VIOLENT IMAGERY / SEMANTIC FIELD OF SAVAGERYEXCLAMATORY SYNTAX & CONDITIONAL MOOD

Beatrice · Act 4, Scene 1

9
PROGRESS

Man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion

EPIGRAMMATIC UNIVERSALISMTHEMATIC SUMMATION / CHORUS FUNCTION

Benedick · Act 5, Scene 4

12
REGRESS

Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?

INTERROGATIVE SYNTAX / DRAMATIC IRONYLINGUISTIC RESTRAINT / SILENCING

Hero · Act 4, Scene 1

13
PROGRESS

One Hero died defiled, but I do live, and surely as I live, I am a maid

SYMBOLIC DEATH & RESURRECTIONTHIRD-PERSON SELF-REFERENCE

Hero · Act 5, Scene 4

14
STAGNATE

And seemed I ever otherwise to you?

RHETORICAL QUESTION / MONOSYLLABIC POWERAPPEAL TO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Hero · Act 4, Scene 1

16
REGRESS

Give not this rotten orange to your friend

EXTENDED METAPHOR / OBJECTIFICATIONPUBLIC PERFORMANCE / RITUAL HUMILIATION

Claudio · Act 4, Scene 1

19
STAGNATE

I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace

NATURAL IMAGERY / ANTITHETICAL METAPHORCOMPRESSED SOLILOQUY / SELF-CHARACTERISATION

Don John · Act 1, Scene 3

20
STAGNATE

Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero

TRICOLON WITH ESCALATIONINNUENDO / LINGUISTIC POISON

Don John · Act 3, Scene 2

21
STAGNATE

If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way

INVERTED RELIGIOUS LANGUAGEVICE FIGURE / MORALITY PLAY TRADITION

Don John · Act 1, Scene 3

23
REGRESS

Mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, and mine that I was proud on — mine …

ANAPHORA / OBSESSIVE POSSESSIVESOLIPSISTIC GRIEF / SELF-CENTRED RHETORIC

Leonato · Act 4, Scene 1

24
REGRESS

Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?

RHETORICAL QUESTION / MELODRAMATIC EXCESSPATHOS & TRAGIC REGISTER

Leonato · Act 4, Scene 1

25
PROGRESS

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently

BATHOS / PHILOSOPHICAL DEFLATIONUNIVERSAL APHORISM / COMIC WISDOM

Leonato · Act 5, Scene 1