Four our creative annotation we decided to depict the weeding scene with the literal depiction of Hero as an orange. Though unlike the rottenness she allegedly posses, she is shown ripe and pure as her wedding dress and vale remain white. Claudio is shown looking away from Hero telling everybody about her alleged actions. His ring is thrown on the floor as he breaks apart from his union to Hero. Ironically, the friar has a skull like head since he’s wedding the death of Claudio’s love. To accompany the piece we also created a short poem.

Leonato is at a crossroads He found out something he was not supposed to know. He found out something very dark and so He found out that Hero was indeed a hoe

Upon seeing the act he became quite mad As a soldier with pride he could not get sad To take her back was an idea to perceive But in all actuality he just wanted to leave

Now when he looks at her He sees an orange rotting What he didn’t know Is that behind the scenes someone had been plotting.

This part is the icing on the cake to Don John’s mischievous plan to ravage Hero’s reputation: a plan which involved creating a fake scene of her losing her virginity, which would make her an impure whore since she was meant to remain chaste until marriage. These lines serve as the turning point of the happy wedding that was to be which is now riddled into a chaotic mess. Here one can clearly see Claudio’s burst of anger towards Hero by comparing her to a rotten orange, something that is overripe and undesirable. Oranges, unlike other fruits, have a roughness and bitterness to their skin. Biblically, oranges are symbolic of strength and endurance and are the color of fire and flame. In saying she is rotten, he’s stating that the flame of love that once existed is gone. For what he believes, Hero has been unloyal to him for “sleeping” with Borachio and feels not only disgraced and betrayed by her, but also disappointed. Prior to this she was upheld as a noble and honest person, perceptions that have withered away due to her alleged sexual looseness. Claudio marrying her would make him a cuckold. Societally this would ruin his reputation and make him a fool thus he would rather humiliate her, accuse her of cheating, and ultimately leave her there at the altar for Leonato to take back.