Me

Hello, my name is Benedick of Padua. “I am loved [by] all ladies”, but I will never marry (13). I am a misogynist, and believe that love destroys a man. There is a million reasons to be against love, but I will say only one since it would take me years to write all of them. Since women are untrustworthy, “I will do myself the right to trust none” (21). Since marriage is a trust bond, I will not marry any woman. Never will I write about my love, nor fall in love, but if I do, I swear I will “pick out [my] eyes with a ballad-maker’s pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel house for the sign of blind Cupid” (21). So, enough about what I believe and to what I am. I am the right hand man of Don Pedro (the Prince’s jester), the Prince of Aragon, and my best friend is Claudio, a young, exceptional young lord from Florence who has “borne himself beyond the promise of his age” (7).