His initial love is based purely on lust for her physical appearance.
?come thronging soft and delicate desires, all prompting me how fair young Hero is? . He.
requires a wife of beauty, wealth and status to match his vision of his own nobility.
Personality seems to be an unrecognisable feature of his love which is likely to seem.
strange to us yet would be normal to Elizibethans. The artificiality of Hero and Claudio's.
sentiments is often emphasized by their speaking in verse. This is further emphasized by.
contrast to Beatrice and Benedick's down-to-earth mockeryWould you buy her, that you.
enquire after her??. In early drama productions Hero and Claudio were presented as.
?impetuous and inexperienced, star-crossed children? who were victimised by Don John.
This is a popular interoperation with modern critics also.
Claudio is not a popular character with critics often described ascallous, brash and cold?.
Other critics have pointed out that not enough attention has been paid to Shakespeare's.
'significant characterization of Claudio in the first comments about him?. Claudio has done.
the deeds of a lion in thefigure of a lamb?. He holds the badge of youth, being an.
adolescent who is innocent, inexperienced, prone to over react and be egotistical. This.
although sounding very negative can excuse him from his actions later in the play and his.
naivete can serve as an explanation to the modern audience for how he falls or Hero so.
quickly. It is unlikely that Shakespeare intended for us to dislike Claudio which is.
probably why his inexperience and vulnerability are emphasized right from the start. He is.
always ready to believe what he is told so is an easy victim for Don John's bland deceit. At.
the masked ball he readily believes Don Johns claim that Don Pedro is wooing for himself.
'tis certain so; the Prince woos for himself?. It is Claudio's apprehensiveness in this scene.
which prepares us for his later disillusionment.
