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- Though Beatrice appears a timid and delicate lady to other characters, her obsessive hatred for De Flores sparks strong reaction when they talk. Her vehement disregard for De Flores inspires her to involve him in Alonzo’s murder. She sets to scheming, pretending to dote on De Flores to sway him toward her murderous bidding.
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While Beatrice maintains that her actions are out of her control, DeFlores takes responsibility for even his worst behavior; when he takes his own life at the end of the play, he reflects back on his actions with pride.
After her father arranges for her to marry Alonzo de Piracquo, the beautiful Beatrice conspires with her father’s servant DeFlores to kill Alonzo, paving the way for her marriage to her beloved Alsemero.
De Flores is a slave to his obsessive desire, seeking out any moment he can to be in Beatrice’s presence, even though she expresses her loathing for him to his face. Masochistically, De...
A close textual analysis of The Changeling reveals that the play does have a powerful masochistic subtext, but that subtext is not anchored on the character of Beatrice-Joanna; rather, it is anchored on her antagonist, De Flores.
Though Beatrice appears a timid and delicate lady to other characters, her obsessive hatred for De Flores sparks strong reaction when they talk. Her vehement disregard for De Flores inspires her to involve him in Alonzo’s murder.
De Flores leads Alonzo into the castle’s vault, where he stabs Alonzo and severs one of Alonzo’s ringed fingers as a token for Beatrice. When he returns, Beatrice tries to pay De Flores and send him on his way. De Flores rejects the money with a vengeance.
Once again, we can see a reviewer reacting to The Changeling – and encouraging audiences to react to it – in a manner that maximizes our sense of Beatrice’s final relationship with De Flores as an expression of her true self, and minimizes any tendency to see her as a rape victim.
