THEME: GENDER

Question 1

Claudio: Hero is but an object as a woman based on conventional gender norms

Answer 1

Can the world buy such a jewel

Question 2

Claudio: Courtly love based on sight, not experience

Answer 2

She is the sweetest lady that I ever looked on

Question 3

Don Pedro: Beauty is the only value for women

Answer 3

The lady is very well worthy

Question 4

Don Pedro: Transactional heteronormative views of marriage

Answer 4

She shall be thine

Question 5

Leonato: Beatrice’s sharp judgements are unconventional for women and thus hinder her from a life of love

Answer 5

Thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of they tongue

Question 6

Borachio: Makes the claim that Hero is corrupted. Associate this with the power of voice of men and how Borachio’s words are naturally more powerful than that of Hero’s.

Answer 6

Contaminated stale

Question 7

Don John: Imbalance of power in gender as well as the objectification of women

Answer 7

Even she, Leonato’s Hero, your Hero, every man’s Hero

Question 8

Claudio: Hero remains as transactional

Answer 8

Take her back again / Give not this rotten orange to your friend

Question 9

Claudio: Preserved virgin and innocent based on appearance

Answer 9

You seem to me as Dian in her orb

Question 10

Beatrice: Displaying her sharp witty language

Answer 10

Eat his heart in the marketplace