Infidelity With The Characters In 'Much Ado About Nothing'

Throughout the novel of Much Ado About Nothing, there has been a strong outlook of infidelity with the characters. One line the correlates to the theme is “give not this rotten orange to your friend. She is but the sign and semblance of her honor” (Act 4 Scene 1 lines 32-33). The line took place in a poetic section of the novel. The atmosphere to when this statement was expressed was at the ceremony of proclaiming the marriage of Claudio and Hero. The line is truly saying “Do not give this gift to me, she just appears honorable, but is not really”. The importance to these lines showing the true meaning as to the reason for Claudio to not want Hero’s hand in marriage. In Modern English, “rotten” is viewed to be an act of an object beginning to or is decaying. But in this statement, rotten is used to explain hero as a “bad” person. Claudio is trying to reveal to the people around the ceremony that hero is not a good lady and is not truthfully showing people who she truly is. Referring to “orange” in the novel, today orange is known to be a fruit or a color. But Claudio is actually referring the “orange” to be a gift or Hero herself when he is

“She is but the sign” is explaining that “sign” is brought out to mean the standard that one must follow. The literal meaning to the part of the sentence it is coming across that Hero is not following the actions as to what she is set out to be viewed as. “and semblance of her honor”, semblance is brought out to mean resembling. Hero is supposed to be resembling her honor of being the virgin that she is known to be. So, all together Hero is set out to follow what she is resembled to be as a virgin, and untruthfully is not. Claudio begins to pick out all the qualities that Hero seems to demonstrate that make her seem like a virgin and innocent lady, but it is all an