Into hay nonny nonny.
Sigh no more ditties, sing no more.
Of dumps so dull and heavy.
The fraud of men were ever so.
Since summer first was leavy
The sign not so.
In the first scene it shows how Hero and Beatrice have opposite personalities. Hero is passive, quiet, shy and loving while Beatrice is loud, outgoing, wants thing so happen for her and she doesn’t want any man to swear his love for her. “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.” She doesn’t like the idea of anyone swearing his or her love for her. She had already sward her love for Benedick before but that finished and since then she don’t want and one to do that again. “Don Pedro- come lady, come, you have lost the heart of signor Benedick.
Beatrice- Indeed my lord, he sent it me awhile, and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one, marry once before he won it of me, with false dice, therefore your Grace may well say I have lost it.”
In one scene when Hero and Claudio are about to get married and everything that could be said was said. When the friar said, “You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady?” Everyone is in shock from Claudio’s reaction because not many people where known to make a one-word answer. Claudio said, “no!” Leonarto didn’t realise what Claudio meant with this answer and tried to make a joke out of this by saying “To be married to her: Friar, you came to marry her.” It doesn’t work so they go straight to Hero and she says yes. After the friar has said all that he says, “If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined utter it.” Claudio says know any hero.” This is like he wants her to say that she is no longer a maid. Even if it were true she wouldn’t say it in front of everyone she would have said it in private. He thinks by saying this she is being un-loyal and keeping secret from him. All the way through the conversation between Hero and Claudio after everything she says “my lord.” This shows respect to Claudio and everyone around. Even when he calls her and approved wanton and a whore she still stays the same. In this scene there is a lot of arguing and a lot of things are said. The friar comes up with a plan that will shock everyone. But the plan works and everyone thinks that hero’s dead.
There was only one person in this scene that believed hero and that was Beatrice. She knew Hero wouldn’t do anything to hurt anyone or she wouldn’t want to get accused of doing something. When everyone left the garden and only Beatrice and Benedick were left. Beatrice was crying Benedick said that he believes Hero and would do anything to sort it out. Beatrice said, “Ah, how much might a man deserve of me that would right her!” This means in the way Beatrice said it can be proved of being right when it has been said she was wrong. Beatrice wanted someone to do something about what happened and Benedick offered, “and do it with all my heart” but Benedick it shocked when Beatrice says, “Kill Claudio.” But Benedick wont because him and Claudio are close friends and have been for a long time. He doesn’t think he could and says, “ha, not for the wide world.” Even though when a man loved a woman he would do anything for her. But because he said he wouldn’t she doesn’t think he loves her. Benedick agrees and goes to tell Claudio of Hero’s Death.
When Benedick goes to see Claudio and Don Pedro he over reacts and pushes Claudio against the wall just to tell him. As soon as Benedick leaves the watches come up with Borachio and Conrad as prisoners. Leonardo and Antonio see what’s going on and come over. They find out the truth about what happened and Claudio begs Leonardo for forgiveness. Claudio lets Leonardo choose the punishment “choose your revenge yourself” this shows that no matter what he chooses Claudio wont be scared or he wont not do what he’s been told. All Leonarto says is “if your love, can labour aught in sad inventions, Hang her and epitaph upon her tomb, and sing it too her bones. Tomorrow morning come to my house and since you could not be my son-in-law be yet my nephew.” This shows that there are no hard feelings between them. They go that night and the epitaph say’s:
Done to Death by slanderous tongues,
Was the Hero that here lies;
Death in guerdon of her wrongs,
Gives her fame which never dies,
So the life that died with shame
Lives in Death with glorious fame.
Hang thou there up on the tomb
Praising her when I am Dumb.
When that was finished there was song this was about how hero died being innocent and died from people lying about something she never dreamed about doing.
When Claudio goes the next day to marry Antonio’s daughter he is ready, “for this I owe you: here comes other reckonings, which is the lady I must seize upon”. This shows that no matter whom he has to marry he will for the sake of hero and goes on with the wedding. Even though he wants to see the face of the bride she wont let him until the wedding has finished. He is shocked to find out that the bride is hero and doesn’t know what to say.
