... play. He is trying to make Claudio feel guilty and make him fall in love with Hero again. However, Don John is the main deceiver in this play and is the cause of Hero's slandering. He make Claudio think Hero has deceived him. In the scene before even her own father thinks Hero has deceived him. Hero's reputation and the honour of her family is destroyed, she'll have to go to a nunnery because she has lost her honour. Also, in this scene deception is linked to love. It shows how deception is more dangerous when you are in love as it causes more hurt, to both parties. This also leads on to the theme of marriage. Hero was shamed at her wedding in front of everyone after Claudio deceived her by pretending he was going through with it. We can also see that in Elizabethan times a couple would ...

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