A Relationship Between Hero And Her Eventual Suitor

Shakespeare uses Hero’s father to display love as cold and disloyal, though Claudio also reveals this. After Claudio publicly shames Hero, she is left with a few people, including Leonato. With hardly a doubt passing through his mind, Leonato austerely exclaims: “Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames, Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches, Strike at thy life” (IV. i. 1774-1776). After Hero faints, Leonato admits that if she were to survive her shame, he may be tempted to murder her with his own hands, despite the repercussions. He would deracinate the issue by destroying the source, his daughter. Instead of remaining a stalwart father, he concluded that Hero was guilty. An infarction in the familial organ, depicting the true nature of love as disloyal and easily

Throughout the play, women are used as a means to showing off male honour. Women are defined in connection with men, such as wife, mother and daughter. Therefore, Hero is addressed by characters as “Leonato’s Hero, your Hero, every man’s Hero” and “the old man’s daughter”. With the image of jewel, women are like the property of men which can help boast male honour. As Hero possesses the socially desirable qualities, such as beauty, modesty and chastity, Leonato once says that Hero is “mine I loved, and mine I praised, and mine that I was proud on”. Owing to having Hero as Leonato’s daughter, Don Pedro even lauds him as an “honourable father”. When Leonato misinterprets that Don Pedro eyes on Hero, he considers it extremely honourable. To him, it is even like a dream. Put it simply, Leonato’s male ego hinges on both Hero’s own qualities and her attraction to Don Pedro with high social status.

            This banter between the men is consistent with the notion that all Shakespeare men want to marry a pure, socially benefiting woman and avoid cuckoldry.  Claudio also does not seem to know much about Hero, thus explaining why he is asking Benedick and Don Pedro about her.  He not only wants to know that his budding feelings are justified, but he wants to make sure that his choice of lady is indeed worthy of his honor.  Even if Hero is fair, if she will not compliment Claudio’s social status, he will not marry her (Ranald 74).

After finishing a war, Don Pedro and his group of soldiers decide to stop at an old friend of Don Pedro house, in Messina. Claudio soon realizes that he truly loves Hero after seeing her again when at Leonato’s house and he wants to marry her that day. When Claudio is confessing his love to Don Pedro, he and Don Pedro plan to have Don Pedro get her consent, of marriage, then he will give her to Claudio, but while this is happening, one of Don John men is listening in on the conversation. Don John quickly learns about this new news of his brother’s soon to be marriage and wants to stop it, for revenge. When at the party Don Pedro asks Hero for her consen’s to marry Claudio, which she agree to so they plan their wedding for the next Monday.

In Act -, Scene -, they decide that they want to get married. The wedding is planned and is going to be successful until Don John accuses Hero of being disloyal to Claudio. “That’s the one: Leonato’s Hero, your Hero, every man’s Hero.” (Don John Act III, Scene II) Claudio believes him and causes him to come up with a plan of humiliating her for being unfaithful at the wedding ceremony. “If I see anything tonight that convinces me not to marry her, I’ll shame her tomorrow in the very congregation where I would have married her.”

The opinions of Antonio and Leonato differ by many standards of their own. This is happening during the wedding of Hero and Claudio and it happens after the shaming. An example of this is when Leonato said “Hence from her, Let her die”(Shakespeare 70). When Leonato says this he is at a wedding for his daughter hero, but has become enraged when he hears false

There is significance in the men 's confusion arising from such wit of Beatrice 's, since Leonato himself asks, "What is he that you ask for, niece?", yet Hero has no difficulties comprehending. This kind of understanding between them, if typical of all women, must certainly contribute to a sense of unease that the men feel.

– The author tried to present two separate love stories of different generation, Ira and Ruth: Sophia and Luke. The story begins with Ira Levinson, a ninety-one years old person struggling for life, with the image of his dead wife Ruth in his mind, trying to survive from the deadly car accident. On the other hand, a young couple Sophia and Luke who had just started their married life as a happy couple just few months after they met. On their way back to home, they saw the car and Ira in injured state. They took him to the hospital where Sophia used to read the letters of his Ruth for Ira, as he was not able to read it. Luke was indulged in deadly games to pay the debts of his father. This met changed their life and soon their life changed.

<br>Leonato, however, can not perceive the innocence of his own daughter. He immediately sides with Claudio and Don Pedro and notes that they would not lie:

Both authors point to the writings of Juan Luis Vives to make their case (Chamberlain 4; Fleck 19). In his warning to Christian women about the fragile nature of their honor, Vives created a relic of the misogynist culture represented in Much Ado About Nothing (Fleck 21). The societal belief at the time Shakespeare is writing his play is that women are not to be trusted when it comes to sexual desires. With this ideology consuming the majority it is easy to see how Hero’s own father quickly loses faith in his daughter. Fleck claims the metonymy in Claudio’s statement paired with the misogynistic view of society allows Leonato and most others in attendance at the wedding to convince themselves that Hero’s shame is valid

Through this passage the reader can see that Hero’s relationship and eventual marriage to Claudio is a distinct type of love in that it’s borne more out of necessity and social formality rather than profound deep-seated feelings for each other. Both Leonato and his bother Anthony’s words to Hero preparing her for what everyone assumes will be Don Pedro’s proposal illustrate that Hero has no choice in either who and when she marries. Instead the two men express their belief that Hero must do as her father instructs. In discussing the impending proposal with Hero from who everyone believes to be Don Pedro, Anthony subtly suggests to her that she should take the course of action her father wishes saying, “Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled by your father” (2.1.42-43).

Before trying to make Hero his wife, he met with Don Pedro and asked “Hath Leonato any son, my lord?” (Shakespeare 10). His reasoning was to make sure if he married Hero, he would inherit all of her father’s money. After knowing Hero was Leonato's only child, he says;

Shakespeare introduces devices of masks and deception to underline the superficiality of a society where truths are hidden below appearances. Throughout the first acts of the play, Hero and Claudio behave and proceed with their courtship in a manner befitting the conventions of the time. Claudio wants to be sure that Hero would make a suitable bride before he pursues her. He asks Don Pedro: "Hath Leonato any Son, my Lord?"

In The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd, there’s a family consisting of a controlling father (The Duke), disobedient daughter (Bel-imperia) and her meddling, overprotective brother (Lorenzo). Bel-imperia is commanded by her father to marry a prince named Balthazar that is wealthy and has a high position. She on the other hand has her preference for someone that isn’t quite on her level but she loves, named Horatio. Her father in Act 2 scene 3 line 7 says “yet herein shall she follow my advice, which is to love

Moreover, Don Juan speaks of commitment to one woman as bondage or a death sentence. In the story Don Juan was once committed to his Elvira, presently has lost interest in her. Thus, Don Juan says “What! Would you restrict a man to staying chained to the first woman who takes his fancy, has him give up everything for her and never look back again?” ( 98 Misier). Therefore, Don Juan uses his expansive vocabulary to manipulate and persuade women of any background. Hence Don Juan remains bold in his efforts to steal a woman’s affections insomuch he enchants and stirs debate between Charlotte and Mathurine. In the story Charlotte and Mathurine debate over whom Don Juan loves. Therefore Don Juan fuels the debate between Charlotte and Mathurine. Also, Don Juan says “What do you want me to say. . .You both claim that I promised to marry you. But doesn’t each one of you knows the truth without my needing to spell it out? Surely the one I have given my promise to can afford to laugh at anything the other one says” (115 Moliere).