Much Ado about nothing Act 5 Scene througout the whole of the Act.

Scene 5 ( Thoughts and perception of chacracters at ths point of the play)

Throughout the week i've been thinking about the play and how i've come to perceive it. But I have made the effort in delving more into it, in linking it to aspects of that certain time period of which religion is very important, in the sense that it moulded the way people came to live and think bout their daily life.

For instance Hero's character, portrayed as being so innocent and I quote 'She's but the sign and semblance of her honour Behold how like a maid she blushes here!'. In that time period to remain so pure and innocent was a charm that men found very attractive in a young girl,untouched by any man as Claudio stated that (Hero)'She knows the heat of a luxurious bed; Her blush is guiltiness,not modesty'.

But the thing is that is what I found most interesting within the play, the fact that Claudio was in love with Hero, but that in the heat of the moment, a misunderstanding created by Don John, his feelings of anger was so overwhelming that it took over. And so I looked at the Definition of how Shakespeare in my view could have possibly intertwined the aspects of the 7 Deadly sins within his play.

• Wrath
• Greed
• Sloth
• Pride
• Lust
• Envy
• Gluttony

Looking at all of these in early christianity, gave me a better in depth feel of linking these emotions with the emotions felt at that point in time the Wedding Scene as well as the scenes where Don John conspires to thwart feelings of love and relationship as well as happiness from being developed in the progression of the story as it unfolds.

Notes : What i am particularly interested in, is the love that Claudio feels for Hero i.e, seeing her at first sight and just loving her (Beauty) of generally her as a person maybe - and yet that seems to change, your view of his loe seems to change for her when he believes what he sees instead of what Hero tells him( on the wedding day) about her innocence.
Moving on and the point being that he just saw her and instantaneously didn't care for anything other than what he saw before him, also assuming that he ddin't care about whether she was pure or not, just looking at her, her seeming that way was enough, and I quote through;
Act One, Scene One Claudio - 'Can the world buy such a jewel? In mine eye, she is the sweetest lady that ever I looked on'.I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the contrary, if Hero would be my wife'.
- All three different quotes yet all about his feelings towards Hero. He fell for her charms in that way.
This makes me think that in other words Jealousy remains a very strong component in misconstruing something as fragile as a relationship built(in this case) of the love Claudio has for Hero and Vice versa.
The fact also remains that Don John was the culprit in causing the mischief, adding deception, lies that seemed to have tormented Claudio's heart, clouding his mind, so much not seeing any sense in his out burst of anger.

But then he realises his mistake later on, when everything seemed to come to light with the death of Hero. In realisation of her truth in death his former torment of jealousy diminishes, from then on turning into the torment of (the supposedly dead) Hero, he then blames himself for the cause of her Death.

Don John's Evil is the cause of how the whole aspect of the story changes from being one of happiness to one of tragedy in the way of creating the rifts that caused this to happen.