Analysis of Act 2, Scene 2-3

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1. Don John begins making trouble by saying that Don Pedro wooed Leonato’s daughter for himself and not for Claudio but the problem was resolved as Claudio and Don Pedro had a conversation about it. So when Don John realized that his first plan didn’t worked, he was planning on ruining Claudio’s wedding with Hero. 2. We know that Don John and Borachio are aware of the possible consequences of their planned deception because whenever they talk of their treachery they isolate themselves from the outside and they talk about the act with no one else because they know that this person could denounce them. 3. Borachio is close to one of Hero’s servants (Margaret), so he’ll try to get her to stand with him at Hero’s bedroom window while playing a flirtatious game where he’ll make love to her and call her Hero. The role of Don John will be to announce to Don Pedro and Claudio that he’s discovered Hero’s love for Borachio and bring them to see the scene as a proof, so they will think Margaret is Hero and that she is cheating on Claudio. 4. Benedick believes love has changed Claudio’s behaviour by saying: * “I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife, and now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe.” (L.13-15). Here Benedick lets us understand that Claudio is less serious and more joyful than he used to be. * “I have known when he would have walked ten mile afoot to see good armour, and now will he lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.” (L.15-18).. Now Claudio seems to worry only about being attractive for Hero. * “He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man and a soldier, and now is he turned orthography; his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes.” (L.18-22). According to Benedick, Claudio’s language changes too. 5. The eight graces

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