In the play Much Ado About Nothing, the class and gender stereotypes are presented. Throughout the play, Men are portrayed as the stronger one and the more knowledgable ones. Don Pedro, Claudio and Benedick walk around like they are so great and Hero flutters like a little girl, not really knowing what is happeneing, just going along with it. Claudio and Don pedro think they are so much better than everyone due to their rank and class, that when hero is bamled for not being a virgin they have to shame her infront of everyone. When the Dogberry come to Leonato before the wedding to tell him of the prisoners, Leonato blows him off. Leonato thinks he is so much better than Dogberry, but really it is Dogberry and his men who save the day. Shakespeare uses these examples and events to portray that these stereotypes are wrong and that woman are just as smart and important as men and that your rank is really just a name. Dogberry isn't as high of rank as Leonato or anyone living in is house, but he is the one who ends up catchnig Don Jon. Hero also has a plan to fake death after Claudio shmes her infront of everyone. Shakespeare does not believe in these stereotypes and uses the way we interpret each event to express his opinion.