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But if Theobald's emendation be received, difficulties still remain. Margaret must have been persuaded to answer to the name of Hero. After Borachio's arrest he tells us that Margaret wore Hero's garments. But Shakespeare, deserting Spenser, from whom this mystification appears to be borrowed, gives no reason which induced Margaret to play this part. Where was Hero on that night?
Picture her fear and horror when she heard them scheming to deprive her of her infant and then drive her from their midst, thus ridding the tribe of a useless member and retaining Borachio's child. It was Corcovita, the mother of the poor heart-broken creature, who was the strongest advocate of this shameful outrage. "We shall leave here to-morrow to go to Avignon," said she.
Are the Prince and Claudio justified in the action they propose? Is the element of chance, which both destroys the falseness of the evidence by means of Borachio's talk, and prevents it from being known by Dogberry's, especially fitting? Why? Does Claudio's demeanor in the repudiation scene betray the violence of love?
Is Claudio led to distrust of the Prince by others or by his own jealousy? In the second action of the favorable influence initiated by the Prince, which of the characters share? Does the unfavorable influence work against Benedicke's happiness? What is Borachio's place in the action of the unfavorable influence? How is it made to work well in Benedicke's case?
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