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So I’m taking a break from writing a paper comparing “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Romeo and Juliet.”

Suddenly, I got really really angry at Claudio. I mean come on! First he believes the guy that that he just beat in battle over his commander and friend. Then, he believes the same guy instead of the girl that he “loves.” He says he loves her and then runs away at the first test of that love. He also acts rashly on his stupidity and extreme emotions to publicly humiliate Hero. And then stupid Hero! She loves a guy who doesn’t even know enough to question the guy who just lied to him. How on earth does she keep loving him after he embarrasses her like that? How does she expect their marriage to work with that little trust? Is she stupid, or is love actually that strong?

So then, I started feeling really really sorry for Romeo (sorry about the whole emotional teenage girl thing). Juliet was completely out of reach for him, but he knew he had to try. He didn’t choose to love her, it just happened and he knew he would never recover. A day without her was like toast without butter. If he knew another way to stop the pain of not having her he would have acted on it and avoided the whole play, but the only remedy he knew was to find her and never let her go.

So then I had to either hope that Hero was like Romeo, or give up on her.