Warning - Long read ahead, so bear with me. This is kind of an essay, oops got carried away I guess. 😆😳
The other day I was researching some of my favourite Shakespeare plays and I remembered briefly studying Much Ado About Nothing at Uni.
For those of you who don't know the play, it's a comedy involving two love stories. A sweet, romantic couple and a witty, warring couple. Sound familiar?
The sweet couple's story has a moral message and the witty couple's story has more of an entertaining edge; wars of words with heated chemistry. Familiar?
The spicy couple are Benedick and Beatrice.
Benedick is a young lord of Padua, a strong, brave soldier but a mischievous young man. When he is first introduced, he's not especially known for anything besides his sharp wit. Most things are a joke to him and he cares little for anything. He has a carefree attitude and doesn't want to get married because he doesn't want to be tied down.
Beatrice is the niece of Leonardo, Governor of Messina. She is equally as witty as Benedick. She is strong, intelligent and prideful. She is also shown to be vulnerable at certain points in the play, but she tries to hide this side of herself. She feels deeply, and her emotions range from righteously angry to good humour. Beatrice doesn't want to get married because she feels that no man will ever be good enough for her, but this is really a mask.
Right from the very beginning of the play, we can see both of these characters trying to get the better of each other. It emerges that they used to court' (old fashioned dating) and things had turned sour between the two of them. Now they constantly argue, throwing barbed insults and clever, over confident banter at each other. Although they appear to hate each other, they share a connection and are extremely affected by each other's words and actions.
Nothing changes until both are convinced by others (read Baggi) that one is secretly in love with the other. Both react differently. Benedick goes after Beatrice not because he loves her, but to prove he's not going to scorn her love or be too proud to take responsibility for her. In the process, his hidden feelings for her surface. Strangely he's not afraid of his feelings but is unfamiliar with the formalities of conventional romance. He even tries to write her some poetry but fails miserably. He concludes that he is not a typical lover.
Meanwhile, Beatrice runs from her emerging feelings for Benedick. She hides her love behind her pride as she is unwilling to be vulnerable, after being hurt in the past. Benedick is more forward in his love as he has no fear of it.
In the midst of Beatrice's despair at her cousin's name being tarnished and being left at the alter unmarried, it is Benedick who comforts her immediately. They confess their love in this emotional moment. He even offers to give up his friendship with his best friend and fight him to save her cousin's dignity. This is the first couple, Claudio and Hero.
Eventually everything is sorted out between Claudio and Hero thanks to Benedick and Beatrice working together. At the end, B and B go public with their relationship, getting engaged to be married.
So as you can all see, after all that (sorry again), there are major connections between these two hopeless individuals, and Veera and Ballu.
Two equals, always fighting and trying to one-up' the other, underlying care and buried feelings, blazing chemistry and strong denial.
Yes, VeeBa are certainly cut from Shakespearean cloth.
Lastly, I know their love story is incredibly complicated (especially now) and they both need their heads bashed together, but they are end game. Sometimes I have tiny doubts about their future, but then I see how similar they are, how compatible they are, how perfectly imperfect they are and my doubts disappear.
Note - To all who read this far, thank you. Hopefully this was as interesting for you as it was for me. 😃
If not, sorry for being a bore so late in the day. 🥱😊
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