What does Don Pedro do when Claudio proclaims I love her I feel in Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare?

Answer 1

Don Pedro has gone to ask Leonato whether Claudio can marry Hero (Yenta the Matchmaker is apparently unavailable at this time). Don John tells Claudio that Don Pedro has really gone to ask to marry Hero himself. Because Claudio is very gullible and very jealous, he believes him and is very grumpy until he is told that Hero has in fact agreed to marry him.

Answer 2

Though Don John ostensibly influences all of the action of the play, he has very few speaking lines for a main character. Don John operates as a plot-device more than a fully fleshed out character. He does give us a little speech about how he's a bad guy - and likes being a bad guy - but there's not much that we say about him because we never really know his motivations, or even his reaction to all of the chaos he's caused. In the end, he has run off before he can even be punished or have a warm, fuzzy change of heart scene. He's definitely not Shakespeare's most compelling and complex villain. Ultimately, though, it isn't a failing of Shakespeare's that this villain is so thin. It's actually a reminder to the reader that the play isn't supposed to be a tragedy, and isn't even supposed to really analyze evil at all. The more important take-home points of the play are about mirth and the folly of misunderstanding.

Don Pedro - An important nobleman from Aragon, sometimes referred to as "Prince." Don Pedro is a longtime friend of Leonato, Hero's father, and is also close to the soldiers who have been fighting under him-the younger Benedick and the very young Claudio. Don Pedro is generous, courteous, intelligent, and loving to his friends, but he is also quick to believe evil of others and hasty to take revenge. He is the most politically and socially powerful character in the play.

Answer 3

Don John has two plots, both designed to mess up Claudio's relationship with Hero:

1. Persuade Claudio that Don Pedro wants Hero for his own wife, and is negotiating for himself with Leonato, not for Claudio. Claudio is initially fooled by this but it quickly becomes apparent that Don Pedro was on Claudio's side all along.

2. Persuade both Claudio and Don Pedro that Hero was having sex with some other guy on the night before her wedding to Claudio. With the help of Borachio and Margaret, who provide the "ocular proof" as it were, this works really well and both Claudio and Don Pedro are completely persuaded.

Answer 4

He tells them that Hero is going to sleep with another man on the eve of her wedding.

Answer 5

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