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How does Benedick and Beatrice's behaviour challenge gender roles?
Does the answer change according to whether we are thinking about Shakespeare's time or our own? Possibly thinking about Act 4 Scene 1 in particular.
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Beatrice's behaviour challenges gender roles, particularly for a Jacobean audience, from the very start of the play. Her outspokenness and witty banter with the messenger in 1.1 is contrasted...
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In regards to Beatrice particularly, consider these examples:
She quickly rejects Don Pedro's proposal, without consulting the "advice" of her father. She is in contrast to...
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