In the beginning of William Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick despise each other, and both disdain romantic love. They both declare that they will never marry. But then their friends trick them into believing they love each other, and in the end, they truly fall in love and marry one another.

What effect does this sequence of events most likely have on the text?

It creates humor and surprise that the once enemies fall in love and marry.

It creates foreshadowing about how the friends will trick Beatrice and Benedick.

It creates surprise that a man and a woman do not believe in romantic love.

It creates mystery surrounding the hatred between Beatrice and Benedick.