1. Patriarchal Society in Much Ado About Nothing
This is shown not only through the cruel way in which Hero is treated, but also through the way that weddings were carried out. At the start of the ceremony Claudio asks Leonato "Will you with free and unconstrained soul Give me this maid your daughter? ... This shows how in Elizabethan times women were thought of as little more than possessions. ... It shows us that if a woman loses her virginity before marriage the shame it brings to her and her family is so extensive that she would be better off dead. ... This shows just how much women were objectified, their only use was to be married and ...
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