This being Hero’s wedding. Claudio, having been fooled by Don John, accuses hero of sleeping with Borachio. He then confronts her about it, in turn stopping the wedding and making Hero seem like a common prostitute in front of everyone. He then pushes her to the ground in a fit of rage before storming out. This is shocking to watch as it really shows what can happen when the seeds of deception are planted. The word cruelty is often misunderstood or misused in conjunction with comedy, the meaning of cruelty is to perform acts of evil or hatred without any consideration or thought for the consequences. To prove that Shakespeare's comedy is not cruel; the only character to display these traits necessary to be considered cruel is Don John, but this is because his character is simply used as a plot driver not as an active contributor to the comedy within the play. To quote Charlie Chaplin 'life is a tragedy when seen close-up, a comedy in long-shot'. This basically tells us that in order to make the true horrors of everyday life bearable we must laugh at others misfortunes, this lessens the impact of their reality bound counterparts. An example would be Cuckoldry in Much Ado about Nothing; it was an extremely tabooed area at the time, but this play would have made the subject a little easier to discuss and
This being Hero’s wedding. Claudio, having been fooled by Don John, accuses hero of sleeping with Borachio. He then confronts her about it, in turn stopping the wedding and making Hero seem like a common prostitute in front of everyone. He then pushes her to the ground in a fit of rage before storming out. This is shocking to watch as it really shows what can happen when the seeds of deception are planted. The word cruelty is often misunderstood or misused in conjunction with comedy, the meaning of cruelty is to perform acts of evil or hatred without any consideration or thought for the consequences. To prove that Shakespeare's comedy is not cruel; the only character to display these traits necessary to be considered cruel is Don John, but this is because his character is simply used as a plot driver not as an active contributor to the comedy within the play. To quote Charlie Chaplin 'life is a tragedy when seen close-up, a comedy in long-shot'. This basically tells us that in order to make the true horrors of everyday life bearable we must laugh at others misfortunes, this lessens the impact of their reality bound counterparts. An example would be Cuckoldry in Much Ado about Nothing; it was an extremely tabooed area at the time, but this play would have made the subject a little easier to discuss and