Why is claudio interested in hero

He is starting to forgive his illegitimate brother, Don John for their past disagreements. Don Pedro is a noble man and inspires respect and loyalty from his friends and followers. Don Pedro enjoys witty jokes and admires Beatrice's character. He is the first to realise she and Benedick are a perfect match and arranges the plan to trick them both.

He is loyal and willing to help his friends but the first to admit when he is wrong and quick to make things right. Despite being surrounded by friends, he is alone at the end of the play. Don Pedro is a respected man who has achieved a lot of great things. His treatment of Hero, however, is shameful and beneath him. Don Pedro has done a lot to help his friends get good relationships, yet he is alone.

Don John is the illegitimate brother of Don Pedro , the prince. However, Don John is bitter and angry and wants to make trouble for Don Pedro. He is also jealous of Claudio , who Don Pedro has recently rewarded, thinking he has all the glory that should be his.

Using his two followers, Borachio and Conrad, Don John plots against Claudio and Don Pedro, not caring that it will hurt other innocent people. When this plot is discovered, Don John runs away but is eventually arrested by Don Pedro's men.

Don John refuses to put on an act for anyone. What you see is what you get. Don John would rather be hated by everyone than make an effort to be liked. In this way, he sees himself as an honest villain, rather than a pretend friend. Don John will only strengthen his friendship with Don Pedro if he behaves himself. Dogberry in the production of Much Ado About Nothing. He is a comic character who is full of contradictions: he takes his job very seriously but is hopeless at doing it and he talks a great deal but uses the wrong words to explain himself.

He is proud and uses important-sounding phrases and sayings to sound clever. Unfortunately, this has the opposite effect and confuses everybody around him. Although he is a figure of fun, Dogberry has an important role in increasing the drama of the play.

He also takes the credit for bringing Don John and his men to justice, despite the fact that he did very little. Dogberry is not a great communicator as he is saying he would hang an honest man but not a dog.

Dogberry is very proud and thinks he has some excellent qualities including good looks and life experience. Dogberry is speaking nonsense. Margaret in the production of Much Ado About Nothing. She is close to Hero and is trusted by her. She is witty and confident in company and can keep up with the wordplay of both Beatrice and Benedick. Her humour can be rude and she enjoys teasing both Hero and Beatrice about men. She is certainly a match for Benedick, who also comments that she is good looking.

Despite being a servant, Shakespeare places Margaret at the centre of the drama. Her words are only offensive if someone twists their meaning.

Margaret is witty and beautiful enough to win any man but she worries that as a waiting woman, she will never manage to marry someone of higher social status. She is such an honest and decent person that even a villain defends her. Borachio in the production of Much Ado About Nothing. Borachio is a follower of Don John , the illegitimate brother of the prince. He is loyal to Don John and, together with Conrad, Borachio acts as a kind of spy, passing on pieces of information that may help Don John cause trouble for his brother.

Borachio is the one who comes up with the plot to disgrace Hero and takes money from Don John for doing it. When Borachio drunkenly boasts about his crime and the money he has earned from Don John to do it, he is overheard by the Watch and arrested.

Borachio is very persuasive. He has convinced Margaret to let him call her by her mistress's name. Borachio is well known to the police. He dresses and acts like a gentleman but is really a lowlife thief. Their relationship is quite hostile when they meet in Act 1 Scene 1. They fall into old habits of squabbling and their constant arguing hints at the fact that they have known each other a long time. Things get worse at the masked ball when Beatrice hears Benedick has insulted her and she insults him back.

We learn that he has hurt her in the past. Beatrice, however, has no idea. Their relationship grows stronger after Act 3 Scene 1 when Beatrice is tricked and realises she loves Benedick too. After the terrible events at the wedding in Act 4 Scene 1, the two finally admit deep feelings for each other.

Their relationship is very strong by Act 5 Scene 4. Benedick has proved his love to Beatrice by challenging Claudio. He has also asked Leonato for her hand in marriage. Their relationship is strong at the start of the play. Hero and Beatrice live together and know each other well. Beatrice is protective towards Hero and wants her to keep an independent mind. Hero leads the plan to make Beatrice fall for Benedick, talking about Beatrice and her failings so that Beatrice can overhear them.

However, his mistakes hinder communication, as in Act III, scene v, when Dogberry and the Watch try to tell Leonato that they have caught Borachio but cannot make themselves understood.

Finally, some characters seldom speak at all, like the sullen and bitter Don John or the gentle but usually shy Hero and Claudio. Much of the plot is moved along by characters eavesdropping on a conversation and either misunderstanding what they overhear or being deceived by gossip or by a trick. Hero, Claudio, and the rest trick Benedick and Beatrice by setting them up to overhear conversations in which their friends deliberately mislead them.

In this case, two people spying on the scene, Claudio and Don Pedro, misunderstand what they see, because Don John has set it up to deceive them. The window scene restages the trick played upon Beatrice and Benedick, but with the opposite effect. Instead of causing two people to fall in love, it causes Claudio to abandon Hero. Finally, at the end of the play, overhearing restores order. Hurtful When he learns from Don John that Hero has been unfaithful, he denounces her at the altar.

Repentant When he admits his mistake, Claudio is grateful for Leonato's understanding. Social and historical context Shakespeare often used plots and storylines from other writers and re-wrote his own versions. Analysing the evidence.

Act 1 Scene 1. He admires Hero for her modesty and beauty. Whereas Benedick will fall in love with Beatrice and her sharp wit, Claudio falls in love with Hero who demonstrates all the conventional aspects of the ideal Elizabethan woman. Although he has agreed for Don Pedro to woo Hero on his behalf he still reacts quickly to Don John's claim. One of John's men enacts a scene at Hero's window in which a woman who appears to be Hero succumbs to the amorous attentions of a man other than Claudio.

John further arranges for Claudio and Don Pedro to observe this scene. As a result of seeing this apparent deception, Claudio angrily denounces Hero during their wedding ceremony and, with Don Pedro, storms off as the deceived husband-to-be. The friar performing the ceremony comforts Hero, her father, and the other couple Benedick and Beatrice , and arranges for Hero to be hidden as though dead, until Claudio regains his senses.

Beatrice's defense of Hero after her denouncement unites Beatrice and Benedick in the cause of Hero's revenge, and they declare their love for one another. In the meantime, Dogberry a comically bumbling constable and his men on night watch stumble on the conspiracy against Don Pedro and arrest John's men, who confess their guilt under questioning.