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1. Claudio embodies the stock character of the courtly lover, conveying contemporary attitudes towards love and relationships, as seen through his relationship with Hero

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1. Claudio embodies the stock character of the courtly lover, conveying contemporary attitudes towards love and relationships, as seen through his relationship with Hero

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Claudio says ‘Can the world buy such a jewel’. Referring to Hero, this objectifies her and shows Claudio’s views on women.  It dehumanises Hero and shows his lack of respect for Hero and for Women.

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Claudio says ‘Can the world buy such a jewel’. Referring to Hero, this objectifies her and shows Claudio’s views on women.  It dehumanises Hero and shows his lack of respect for Hero and for Women.

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This is shown when Claudio says ‘But as brother to sister, showed Bashful Sincerity, and comely love. This is a simile, it implies that their relationship was not sexually romantic.

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This is shown when Claudio says ‘But as brother to sister, showed Bashful Sincerity, and comely love. This is a simile, it implies that their relationship was not sexually romantic.

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2. Hero is seen to be unfairly shamed at her wedding, reflecting contemporary male anxieties and the elements of misogyny present in Elizabethan society

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2. Hero is seen to be unfairly shamed at her wedding, reflecting contemporary male anxieties and the elements of misogyny present in Elizabethan society

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“To link my dear friend to a common stale.”

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“To link my dear friend to a common stale.”

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A “Stale” is a prostitute meaning she is payed to have intercourse and it’s a very shameful and thought down upon job

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“Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.”

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“Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.”

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A “wanton” is a whore and to be called that at your wedding is very shaming and is saying she lost her chastity before being married

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Describes her as a beast and extremely sexually active dehumanising and shaming her.

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Oranges where seen as very valuable and exotic in Elizabethan times to to call her a rotten orange is to say she’s a ruined Beaty and it dehumanises her saying she’s an orange.

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“She knows the heat of a luxurious bed.”

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“She knows the heat of a luxurious bed.”

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It means she’s had intercourse before marriage and she knows what it’s like being in the bed after intercourse

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3. Through Hero's character, Shakespeare exposes and criticises the significance placed upon honour and reputation that ultimately limits and oppresses females.

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3. Through Hero's character, Shakespeare exposes and criticises the significance placed upon honour and reputation that ultimately limits and oppresses females.

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Attitude toward Hero displayed when Claudio says "you seem to me as Dian in her orb" the god of chastity, but now he sees she is unfaithful and Hero is compared to "Venus", the god of love, beauty, desire and sex. Here Claudio speaks in verse to emphasise the romance that once was.

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Hero is the innocent and obedient daughter of Leonato.

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"In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on."

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"In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on."

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Hero is so beautiful that Claudio falls in love with her at first sight.

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"I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord."

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"I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord."

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When Claudio accuses her of being with another man, he uses elaborate language. However, Hero responds with simple, quiet truth.

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"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you."

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"Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you."

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Beatrice tells Antonio that her cousin always does what her father asks. the words "duty", "curtsy" and "please" to emphasise Hero's obedient nature.