et him not speak either." says Beatrice.
             Hero is the victim in this play, the loser in a situation she was not a part of, the target of anger directed at her father and fiancé. Don John, the only clear villain in the play, sought to upset Leonato and cheapen Claudio's prize. Hero was the most virtuous amongst the characters but is horribly slandered of being promiscuous on her own wedding in front of everyone she knew. The man that was to be her husband shouted accusations to which she could not defend herself because she was a woman and always suspected of being false. Yet, despite the horror of this wedding ceremony and worse, being scorned by her father whom she had always sought to please, because of those empty words, when
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