What Is Don Pedro's Deceit In Much Ado About Nothing

In the play Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, Don Jon and Don Pedro’s deceit are not only told for positive and negative reasons, but have calamitous outcomes on other characters. In the play, The bitter Don John has learned of the upcoming marriage of Claudio and Hero, and desires a way to prevent it. Don John’s servant Borachio devises a plan for Don John to go to Claudio and Don Pedro and tell them that Hero is not a virgin but a whore, a woman who has willingly corrupted her own innocence a day before her marriage and at the same time chosen to be unfaithful to the man she loves. In order to prove this accusation, Don Jon brings Don Pedro and Claudio below the window of Hero’s room on the night before the wedding, where they

Don Pedro intentions was bringing people together, helping his friends Beatrice and Benedict fall in love. In Leonato’s garden, Don Pedro prepares to trick Benedict into believing that Beatrice loves him. He plans to hold a conversation and let Benedict overhear it just as Hero will have done to trick Beatrice in the next scene. When the two stubborn characters finally admit they are in love. Beatrice is upset about Claudio humiliation of Hero and asks her new fair madden to “Kill Claudio... Is he not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonored my kinswoman? Oh, that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take hands and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancor—O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the marketplace.” (V.ii.184) it is ambiguous that Don Pedros lie has resulted Beatrice's reaction and the consequence of Benedict's attempt to kill Claudio for Beatrice's love. In Shakespeare's play the foil characters Don Jon and Don Pedro lies result in consequences for other characters although they lie for different reasons either better or for