THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Crass, Dogberry, Malapropism
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Family, community or society bears witness to follies. Inciting incident: don jon schemes to ruin hero and claudio"s marriage. Rising and falling actions: beatrice and benedick reflecting the relationship of hero and claudio, subplot of hero and claudio to make beatrice and benedick realize their love for one another. Climax: claudio exposes hero and accuses her of adultery is not the climax, the world is restored back to order when claudio meets hero again and they wed. This provokes beatrice and benedick to wed as well. Hero & claudio = younger couple/juvenile/couple/ing nue couple: innocent, unsophisticated , impetuous and rash behavior. Beatrice & benedick = more mature couple sophisticated: they have history together, secondary couple, offering wit and humor, more calculated behavior, and often more interesting than the main couple. Don jon antagonist and pure evil, or so he says: foreshadowing of melodramatic villain.
