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