Is Claudio justified in deserving Hero as his life partner?

I am going to go out on a limb here and say something that might be unpopular. No, I do not think that Claudio deserves Hero. If she were my friend in real life, I would absolutely tell her to dump him after the stunt he pulls. The fact that he could believe something so ugly about her—that she was so foul as to choose to sleep with a man for the first time on...

I am going to go out on a limb here and say something that might be unpopular. No, I do not think that Claudio deserves Hero. If she were my friend in real life, I would absolutely tell her to dump him after the stunt he pulls. The fact that he could believe something so ugly about her—that she was so foul as to choose to sleep with a man for the first time on the night before her wedding—shows that Claudio does not have much trust in her at all. If there is one thing needed for a successful and fulfilling relationship of any kind, let alone a marriage where one chooses to live with and love another person forever and ever, it is trust. Not only does Claudio not trust Hero enough to believe her when she denies any knowledge of an affair, but he also ruins her publicly and cruelly. Yes, he feels bad about it after he thinks she is dead, but that would do her little good if she actually had died of shame.