1. Choose one central character to analyze. Is s/he round or flat? Explain your answer and provide an example from the play (meaning a quote).

The character I have chosen to analyze is Benedick, because his character seems very interesting to me. I believe that he is round as a character seeing as he changes throughout the play. He starts off the play being a man who is very misogynistic and wants to be a bachelor for life, but after he discovers his love for Beatrice he changes as a man. One example of this is in the scene right after he overhears that Beatrice might love him and his reaction to when she is sent to get him for dinner.

BEATRICE
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
BENEDICK
Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
BEATRICE
I took no more pains for those thanks than you take
pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not have come.
BENEDICK
You take pleasure then in the message?
BEATRICE
Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.
EXIT
BENEDICK
Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in
to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took
no more pains for those thanks than you took pains
to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains
that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do
not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not
love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.

This scene shows that Benedick has a complete reversal of his former beliefs and is instead hitting on Beatrice in the hopes of getting with her and eventually marrying her.