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When Hero is publicly traduced by Don Pedro and Claudio, her friends and relatives react differently. Beatrice helps conspire to fake Hero's death, so she will not have to live with the shame. She also encourages Benedick to "Kill Claudio" and he accordingly challenges him to a duel. Leonato challenges Don Pedro. Once Claudio and Don Pedro are faced with the evidence that they have wrongfully accused Hero, Leonato forgives him but charges him with a penance. He also asks Claudio to marry his "niece" but, with the connivance of Beatrice and the other women, it is Hero who shows up at the altar.
Much ado about nothing by William shakespeare
It depends what you consider to be the main plotline. One plotline concerns Hero and Claudio, the other concerns Beatrice and Benedick. The Hero/Claudio plotline is about Claudio being tricked into believing Hero to be unfaithful to him and embarassing her at their wedding, causing her apparent death. The Beatrice/Benedick plotline is about both of them being tricked into believing that the other is in love with them. The Hero/Claudio plotline takes more time on stage, but the Beatrice/Benedick one is the more popular one, and these are the roles taken by the star actor and actress. That's why it's hard to say which is principal and which is subsidiary.
Hamlet was the "hero," and certainly in the tragic sense, but he is also perhaps an anti-hero. Although Hamlet is probably the closest thing that the play has to a hero, it is more accurate to say that the play is not so one-dimensional as to be a conventional "hero" story. After all, it is a tragedy.
The thing is, Benedick and Beatrice cannot meet each other without getting into a fight. But everyone sees that even though they fight all the time, what they are really fighting is the fact that they are terrifically attracted to each other. However, their pride will not let them admit it (does this sound like Jane Austen at all?). How could Benedick tell Beatrice that he loves her when he can expect to get a cutting sharp-tongued remark in reply? The same applies to Beatrice: How can she says that she really cares for Benedick when he keeps railing on about how he hates her? To solve this problem, the men will allow Benedick to overhear their conversation in which they will bemoan the fact that Beatrice is suffering in silence for her love of Benedick, who is treating her mean. Benedick will be encouraged to admit his love when he hears this. Meanwhile the women (Hero and Ursula) will do exactly the same thing to Beatrice. It works and it's hilarious.
Resist him at all costs
benedick is in love with beatrice.
Hero and Ursula praise Benedick because they are trying to manipulate him into falling in love with Beatrice. By speaking highly of Benedick and suggesting that he is secretly in love with Beatrice, they hope to stir up feelings of jealousy and curiosity in him that will lead to him realizing his own feelings for her.
Hero and Ursula tell Beatrice that Benedick loves her and is pining for her. They also mention that Benedick looks pale and lovesick because of his feelings for Beatrice. This revelation is what changes Beatrice's mind about Benedick and makes her realize that he may have genuine feelings for her.
Beatrice was upset about the way Claudio acted during the wedding when he accused Hero for being with another man. He hurt Hero and to that Beatrice felt that Claudio needed to be killed.
They convince her that Benedick is in love with her, by having a conversation to that effect where she can overhear, while pretending that they don't know that she is overhearing it.
Hero and Ursula have a conversation and make Beatrice think that they don't want her to hear it. In fact they do want her to hear it. The conversation says that Benedick has revealed his love for her to the others when in fact he has done nothing of the sort.
benedick and beatrice, hero and claudio, Margaret and barachio there is three but there is some flirting between ursula and antonio.
They are cousins.
Hero has died.
Hero Don John Don Pedro Dogberry Friar Francis Leonato Ursula Verges Conrade Beatrice Balthasar Antonio Benadick Borachio Claudio Margaret
Beatrice