Mr_Shank

This story takes place in a little town in Italy known as Messina. We start out with Leonato and his family  waiting for a bunch of soldiers to come home from the war. One of the soldiers to come home from the war is Benedick. Now Benedick and Beatrice are at odds, it seems, because they are constantly bickering and insulting one another. Leonato then invites all the men who just came back from the war to stay with him for a month. They are all excited and gladly accept.

Also in this chapter, Claudio falls madly in love with Hero, Leonato’s one daughter. He is scared to tell her how he feels so he shares his feelings with his comrad Benedick. After hearing this Benedick can hardly keep it to himself so he shares it with Don Pedro. These two men then make a plan to hook the two up at a masquarde ball.

A servent overheard these two and he got the wrong idea, so early on in this story there is a conspiracy brewing.

Why do you think Beatrice and Benedick are constantly arguing and bickering? Do you think that they are secret lovers and are just trying to keep up a double life?