Question

from the shakespeare story - book by mary macleod (excerpt) \cupids crafty arrow\ claudio, benedicks friend, is marrying hero, and benedick feels as though he has lost his friendship as a result. as he walks alone in the gardens, benedick thinks about the qualities a woman would need for him to be willing to marry her when he hears claudio, leonato, and don pedro approaching. (1) benedick was strolling alone in leonatos orchard, and as he went he mused to himself. (2) \i do wonder,\ he thought, \that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he is in love, after he has laughed at such shallow follies in others, will himself become the object of his own scorn by falling in love; and such a man is claudio. i have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife, and now he had rather hear the tabor and the pipe. i have known when he would have walked ten miles on foot to see a good armour, and now will he lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. he was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man and a soldier; and now his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes. shall i ever be converted, and see with those eyes? i cannot tell. i think not. i will not be sworn that love may not transform me to an oyster, but ill take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. one woman is fair, yet i am well; another is wise, yet i am well; another virtuous, yet i am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one beauty, one wisdom, one virtue, i will never be afflicted with love. i will rather live in a cave with wild beasts than keep house with a harlot - wife. and yet, to say the truth, i think none but fools are married; and yet none but fools will ever marry. there is no staff more reverend than the hook - staff of wedlock. he that is well - harnessed in a full doublet and a hose, and a hat of current fashion, rides not more securely than a woman in love. how many a poor creature have i seen at a wedding dance step upon her own petticoat and fall down, and there lie sprawling and never rise again till her fellows have laughed her up again! and to see her then how modestly she will blush! o, she will blush a thousand blushes! and then to see her sit down and sew a new - fashioned smock for her tailor to make her look more quaint! o me! how many irons hath my master here in hand, how many cares doth he undergo, that would laugh at me if he knew i were so much a fool as to be in love! but i will never be such a fool. no, i will not.\ select the correct answer. which statement best expresses how benedick develops conflicting ideas over the course of the text? a. he believes that people are bound to change when they are in love, yet he promises to himself that he will not. b. he believes that men become fools when they fall in love, yet he grabs on to hope that he may find it with beatrice. c. he believes that love is not worth the trouble, yet he will continue to search for it. d. he believes that love is hard to find, yet he finds it quickly with beatrice.

Explanation:

The text shows Benedick's initial disdain for love and his view of men becoming fools in love, but then he falls in love quickly himself, showing a conflict in his ideas. He believes people are bound to change when in love as he himself does.

Answer:

A. He believes that people are bound to change when they are in love, yet he promises to himself that he will not.