Mr_Shank

I thought this play was great throughout.  These tweo scenes added more drama with Claudio stopping the wedding, Lenarto saying that Claudio has killed Hero, and Beatrice and Benedick being married.   In the end every thing turned out how I wanted it to.  Hero, Claudio, Benedick, and Beatrice were all happily married.

“Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me: I speak not like a dotard nor a fool, as under prilege of age to brag what I have done being young, or what would do were I not old.  Know, Claudio, to thy head, thou hast so wrong’d mine innocent child and me that I am forced to lay my reverence by and, with grey hairs and bruise of many days, do challenge thee to trial of a man.  I say thou hast belied mine innocent child; thy slander hath gone through and through her heart, and she lies buried with her ancestors; O, in a tomb where never scandal slept, save this of hers, framed by thy villlany!” (Act V, scene i)  This is said by Lenanato to Claudio.  I picked this quote because it shows Lenarto’splan in action.  In this plan Leonato wants Claudio to feel bad about killing Hero and change his mind about her.  To do this he says that Claudio has killed her from the grief that he caused her.  It also gives the reader how much he loves his daughter.  He loves her so much that he challenges Claudio, a much younger man to a dual to kill his daughter’s fake killer.  In the quote Leonato expresses his anger towards Claudio for accusing Hero of being unfaithful.  You can not blame Claudio for this.  He was mislead by Don John.  He than tells Claudio that Hero has died because what he has done to her.  This plan works great.  Claudio is upset at what he did to Hero.  Because of this Leonato gets Claudio to tell everybody that Hero was innocent.  Than he is told to marry Leonato’s nees in place of Hero, but it is actually Hero.  Do you guys think that it was right for Leonato to lie about Hero’s death? Why or why not?  I believe that it was reasonable because everything worked out in the end.  Claudio found out that Hero was not unfaithful and the two were happily married.

-Julian Garcia