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ADO ABOUT NOTHING
CHARACTER
ANALYSIS: HERO
CONCLUSION
From my point of view, Hero’s role in the comedy is completely necessary. This play needs a female character in which the traditional topics at the time and patriarchal structure are represented. In Beatrice could not be represented because she does not follow the typical structure of a lady at the time, but Hero does. As we have seen before, Beatrice does not care about her manners and being married. Of course she has that in mind, but she seems always to be apart from that structure.
Hero’s character is also important because she is the one who suffers the famous convention of love at first sight. This convention could not occur in Beatrice because she seems to believe in love but not in that way, I think she considers love at first sight something for young lovers, not for her.
She is essential when Shakespeare is looking for a conflict about infidelity. If another woman was accused of infidelity, we could trust and even surprise about that, but Hero can not be accused of that sin because she is just an angel. Shakespeare has created a character that will never do what she is accused of, and that is the conflict.
If Hero’s character would not be in the play probably the comedy will not work because she or related to her appears the main conflicts and problems such as unfaithfulness, patriarchal structure, love at first sight…So, the play would be completely different in deed.
I think she is so essential because she represents the classic and traditional structure as the society itself. So she could not be removed because Shakespeare focuses on her main of the problems of the society at the time.
From my point of view, if Hero and Claudio had been able to speak and express their own and personal feelings without any society, tricks, influences pushing, love would have developed alone, without any help, because they love each other. But that it is very simple for Shakespeare. Life is as complex and real as Shakespeare’s plays.