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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.
As the play’s antagonist, Beatrice personifies nearly everything The Changeling sets out to critique. Beatrice’s inability to control her passions—whether it is her dislike for Alonzo and DeFlores or her sudden commitment to Alsemero—is directly responsible for her tragic end.
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.
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!”
The principal interest in The Changeling lies in the two central characters, Beatrice and De Flores. De Flores is a study in sexual obsession. He is a ruthless character who is also efficient...
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.
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.
