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Some students find the request features makes of Benedict at the end of act four scene one manipulative and unfair why does Shakespeare choose to have Benedict in Veterans profess their love for one another now of all times what is Beatrice as Benedicta to prove his love by killing Claudio? Think about this beyond the motive of revenge and consider instead the culture of honor in which they are all living on our was the currency of the time and money practical ways if a man lost his honor he could not proceed in politics or business if a woman lost her honor her virginity she could be killed by her father or male relative or if she has Lucki sent to a Nunnery for the rest of her life what Claudio has done is very serious as a result in heroes death at her father's hands he and Don Pedro a pair of honorable men have chosen the most public and humility anyway and wish to denounce hero and thus Leonato who has always been a gracious and generous host to them why do they not speak to Leonardo in private rather than make such a spectacle are they as honorable as we thought is Beatrices request perhaps more reasonable than a modern audience might initially believe