Claudio's Relationship

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In the book Much Ado About Nothing by shakespeare, Claudio really loves hero but there is always a bump in the road in every relationship and that is exactly what there was in this relationship. The play is about how claudio and hero are going to get married but don john set up a plan to try and make them not get married. Claudio and hero will live happy ever after but with bumps in the road.

Claudio is deeply in love with hero. Claudio is saying that hero is a rare jewel when claudio just got home from war. “I think she’s the most wonderful woman I’ve ever laid eyes on.” and claudio also said “ Even if i had sworn never to marry, I wouldn’t trust myself to keep that promise if hero would marry me.” IT shows that he thinks she’s a

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