shakespear
...he status quo, amuses, by stressing wit and humor through incongruity, focuses on human flaws and limitations, highlighting characters flaws and limitations, serves as a warning to the audience to change similar aspects of their own character. Now the play begins in a field with an army coming home from war and the town is rejoicing due to a great victory. The imbalance in this play is either Don Pedro the leader of the army is at arms with his brother Don Jon the bastard. This can be told on page 29, act 1 sc 3, lines 10-32 “I wonder that thou……man in his humor.” “I had rather……not to alter me” Benedict one of Don Pedro’s good friends and Beatrice one of Hero’s ladies in waiting, are always in a battle of the wits stressing humor through incongruity. This is seen in act 2 sc 1, page 45 on the whole page. Also serves as warning to ...