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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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On the one hand, DeFlores is the play’s villain: he kills both Alonzo and Diaphanta in an effort to impress Beatrice, and he eagerly amputates Alonzo’s finger in order to snag his diamond ring. But he also challenges the other characters in some important ways.
She treats people as commodities, attempting to pay DeFlores off and ordering him to kill her lady-in-waiting, Diaphanta, when she ceases to be of use. Moreover, Beatrice blames the stars she was born under for all of her cruelty rather than taking responsibility for any of the harm she causes.
DeFlores insists that the only way Beatrice can repay him for his murder is by losing her virginity to him. And though Beatrice protests that DeFlores’s language offends her modesty, DeFlores points out the hypocrisy in this claim: “a women dipped in blood,” he laughs, “and talk of modesty!”
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.
Jul 1, 2006 · In her reaction to De Flores's suggestion, Beatrice-Joanna marshals class difference as the bar between them: ‘Think but upon the distance that creation / Set 'twixt thy blood and mine, and keep thee there’ (III. iv. 130-1).
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.
