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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.
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DeFlores lifts Beatrice into his arms, promising her that she will have peace “forever” because she has “yield[ed]” to him. As DeFlores carries Beatrice offstage, he insists that one day she will learn to love him, even though she protests against him now.
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. She appears innocent and beautiful but is in fact deceitful and cruel.
Beatrice’s corruption represents Eve’s corruption in the Garden of Eden, evidenced by Beatrice likening De Flores to a serpent. De Flores take on Beatrice’s murder request, binding himself to Beatrice as her masculine other half and acting out Beatrice’s dark and murderous wishes.
When Beatrice flatters De Flores because she is about to employ him to commit murder, and says his hard face shows “service, resolution, manhood, / If cause were of employment,” De Flores...
DeFlores, confused but flattered, offers to kill Alonzo in service to Beatrice-Joanna. While fantasizing about Beatrice-Joanna, DeFlores encounters Alonzo and offers to take him on a tour of the castle.
In the final step in the transformation of the relationship between Beatrice-Joanna and DeFlores, Beatrice-Joanna expresses genuine care and attraction toward DeFlores for the first time when he agrees to start a fire in the castle.
