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Leonato In William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

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In Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing, Leonato is extremely upset as he tells Claudio, " I cannot bid you my daughter live--" (173) after Hero is wrongingly accused of sleeping with Borachio before her wedding to Claudio. This is the first time Claudio learns that Hero has "died" over her greif, and is told to "hang her an epitaph upon her tomb and sing it to her bones." (173) The tone of the passage is very dreary, sad, and full of greif, it is apparent that Leonato is very regretful for believing Hero had slept with Borachio without any proof. This develops the conflict because Leonato's mood increases the extent of how devastating the news will be to Claudio. One very relavant motif is appearance vs. reality because through the
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