"The savage bull may, but if ever... you may use Benedick the married man."
1- The speaker: Benedick.
2- The dramatic significance: the significance of this line is reflected upon Benedick's disregard for marriage and the idea of him falling in love. The comparison of him to a bull shows that if he were to ever be married he was basically to made a fool for everyone to see by plucking off a bull's horns and placing them on his head along with him being painted vilely. Most obviously this is impossible so as to his belief that he will never marry.
3- meaning of the line: The meaning of the lines by Benedick is him showing how strongly he believer that he will never marry or fall in love. To Benedick it will not occur.
"What should I do with him... Am not with him."
1- The speaker: Beatrice.
2- The dramatic significance: Jus as Benedick has allowed himself to believe, Beatrice also continues to persuade herself that she will never fall in love. On the other hand, she does not want to be single all her life but in her eyes, there is not a man who fits her taste, anyone who is of her interest or desire. Beatrice is a woman of independence, a woman who stands on her own two feet. Through out the book, her belief turns out to be ironice. Ironice to the point where she falls in love with Benedick.
3- The meaning of the line: Beatrice's meaning of the line is that she seems it is very difficult to find a suitable man. She goes on to say, that she has no use for a man who lacks a beared since he is a boy and would not be fit for her. In order for her to have that man she would have to dress him in her apparels and refer to him as her gentlewoman. As for a man that is more than a boy he cannont be the one for her.
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