The relationship between Hero and Claudio initially seems to be normal and an Elizabethan audience would have viewed their relationship was a perfect match. Hero is a young maiden who wants nothing more than to be married and stated later in the play about her wedding dress “God give me joy to wear it” and she is utterly infatuated with Claudio. Claudio wants to marry Hero and believes them to be perfect for each other stating “lady, as you are mine I am yours”. The Elizabethan audience was have viewed the relationship as normal for the time because of Hero’s lack of disobedience towards any of the men in the play by saying “I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my cousin to a good husband” which her is agreeing to the social norms for the Elizabethan era. Hero has very little speech compared to Claudio, this is Shakespeare portraying Hero as the perfect wife for Claudio by not being obtrusive with her forty-four lines of dialogue. …show more content…
Benedick is an arrogant womanizer who is very intent of never becoming married, but when he hears “Beatrice was in love with signor Benedick” he decides she is beautiful and worth his marriage, “she’s a fair lady,”. Benedick’s opinion of Beatrice changes during his realisation of her love, he originally doesn’t believe she could love him, “it seems her affections have their full bent: love me?”, but Benedick does come to the conclusion that Beatrice could possibly been in love with him the whole time, “I do spy some marks of love in her”. Benedick is so easily tricked by the other men because he is not sure of himself, “I may chance have some odd quirks” shows that he knows of the imperfections he has and “I did not think I should live till I were married” explains he does not believe he should ever be