Hero

• Give me the maid, your daughter?
• To her foul tainted flesh
• • Follows "courtly love" with Claudio
  • Stereotypical female of the time: only spoken when spoken to
  • Female expectations of remaining pure
  • The male is always believed over the female
• says very little the entire play
• it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say father as it pleases you
• when Claudio is accusing her, she only asks questions making the men make the decisions and not defending herself at all
• justaposes Beatrice