What is the difference between the gulling scenes of man and woman in act 2 scene 3 and act 3 scene 2 in Much Ado About Nothing?

One interesting way to approach answering this question
would be to consider the response of both Beatrice and Benedick to hearing the elaborate
deception of their friends in stating that the other is in love with them. This yields
particularly interesting results. Interestingly, if you do this, it is Beatrice that
comes out looking much better than Benedick.

It is in Act
II scene iii when Benedick is gulled, and this scene is much longer than the following
scene in Act III scene i when Beatrice is similarly ensnared. However, what is
interesting to note is Benedick's reaction after Don Pedro, Leonato and Claudio have
left. Benedick's biggest preoccupation seems to be what they will think of him in
receiving the love of Beatrice rather than any concern for Beatrice herself. Also, the
declaration that he makes to justify his change of heart hardly endears us to
him:

No. The
world must be peopled. When I said I would die a batchelor, I did not think I should
live till I were
married.

Benedick apparently
needs to go through quite a significant internal debate before he can decide to accept
this love and court Beatrice.

However, Beatrice, in Act III
scene i, needs no such internal debate and does not worry about what others will think
of her. What she has heard is enough to change her completely. Note her instantaneous
transformation:

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What fire is in mine ears? Can this be
true?

Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so
much?

Contempt, farewell; and maiden pride,
adieu.

No glory lives behind the back of
such.

And, Benedick, love
on.

It is hard to escape the
fact that Beatrice seems to be more easily tricked, but that her change of heart is all
the more noble and endearing because of her instant decision to let Benedick "love
on."