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- Looking back on the events of the last few days, Alsemero resolves that “all we can do is comfort one another, to stay a brother’s sorrow for a brother.”
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Though he wildly misjudges Beatrice, insisting on her honesty even as she consistently deceives him, Alsemero is often presented as the moral center of the play: he is able forgive others, speak honestly, and forge a new path forward after tragedy strikes.
- The Changeling Act 1, Scene 1 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts
Alsemero, deeply pained, makes an excuse to leave, but...
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- The Changeling Act 1, Scene 1 Summary & Analysis | LitCharts
Alsemero, deeply pained, makes an excuse to leave, but Vermandero insists that he must see the castle. Alsemero knows Vermandero is only trying to be kind, but he feels he cannot bear to be around Beatrice any more without wanting to marry her.
Alsemero is a nobleman from Valencia who falls in love with Beatrice. He immediately postpones his voyage to Malta to declare his love for her. Alsemero is an honorable man.
Alsemero says Beatrice was beauty changed to whoredom, he himself a supposed husband changed with wantonness. Antonio says he was changed from a little ass to a great fool and was almost changed to be hanged at the gallows. Franciscus says he was changed from a little wit to stark mad.
A dumb show reveals Vermandero learning, confusedly, of Alonzo ’s flight; Vermandero then points to Alsemero, signifying that he will be a suitable husband for Beatrice now that Alonzo is gone. All the gentlemen and servants applaud Vermandero’s choice.
The Changeling manufactures a series of dramatic substitutes for Beatrice's interiority: substitutes that, insofar as they may be seen, measured, heard, and controlled, neutralize the uncertainties that accrue around her
The play opens outdoors, near a church by the port, with the Valencian nobleman Alsemero delaying his departure for Malta and getting drawn into Beatrice-Joanna’s adulterous and murderous plots.
