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Hero and Claudio represent the Elizabethan norm in marriage. Claudio is the shrewd, hardheaded fortune hunter and Hero is the modest maiden of conduct books and marriage manuals, a docile young woman. It is important to note that Claudio is more concerned with advancement in Don Pedro's army than he is with love. Therefore, Shakespeare illustrates to the reader through the near tragedy of mistaken identity that Claudio must learn that marriage is more than a business arrangement and become worthy of Hero's love and affection.
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Shakespeare’s women are capable of enduring love. His heroines unite harmoniously the strengths commonly associated with one sex or the other-assertive but not aggressive, independent but not insular, erotic but not sensual, warm hearted but without sentimentality, rational but sympathetic.
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The character of Beatrice is probably the strongest women in the play. She is the niece of Leonato and cousin of Hero. She is feisty, sharp and witty. Her character breaks down the social norm in the Elizabethan times, such as when she urges Hero to defy her father and how she stands up for herself when she is in a very dependent social position. Also, she refuses to get married until she finds the perfect, equal man and because she does not want to give up her liberty to a controlling man. She is very critical of the men at the time, who she says are filled with lust ‘Hot and hasty’, and born into conventions and restrictions ‘full of state and ancientry’. She is constantly waging a ‘merry war’ with Benedick, where they constantly trade insults. Benedick complains that her words can ’stab’ and that once she launches a verbal assault she holds nothing back, this breaks down tradition barriers as a women would never be expected to talk back to a man in such a way.
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o rly
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Please go on, this is the most culture /e/ has had in nearly a year.
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I was born in a water moon. Some people, especially its inhabitants, called it a planet, but as it was only a little over two hundred kilometres in diameter, 'moon' seems the more accurate term. The moon was made entirely of water, by which I mean it was a globe that not only had no land, but no rock either, a sphere with no solid core at all, just liquid water, all the way down to the very centre of the globe.
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If it had been much bigger the moon would have had a core of ice, for water, though supposedly incompressible, is not entirely so, and will change under extremes of pressure to become ice. (If you are used to living on a planet where ice floats on the surface of water, this seems odd and even wrong, but nevertheless it is the case.) The moon was not quite of a size for an ice core to form, and therefore one could, if one was sufficiently hardy, and adequately proof against the water pressure, make one's way down, through the increasing weight of water above, to the very centre of the moon.
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Where a strange thing happened.
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For here, at the very centre of this watery globe, there seemed to be no gravity. There was colossal pressure, certainly, pressing in from every side, but one was in effect weightless (on the outside of a planet, moon or other body, watery or not, one is always being pulled towards its centre; once at its centre one is being pulled equally in all directions), and indeed the pressure around one was, for the same reason, not quite as great as one might have expected it to be, given the mass of water that the moon was made up from.
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This was, of course,
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The Game.
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Wow, I take my hat off to you Anon.
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>>532409
ONLY A THREE HOUR GAP, definitely not a combo breaker.