I'm basically one the same track as everyone else, De Flores manipulated and tricked Beatrice, and now she'll have no choice but to do his bidding. DeFlores shows his true stripes in this line, I was on the line that Beatrice had him in the palm of her hand but instead it's vise versa. Irony dictates that she who once degraded and insulted him, not has to pay for it by becoming his slave. He's rather brilliant for it, basically saying that he has nothing to lose compared to her, who will lose everything. The idea that they are one in the same is in this same vein, she thought she tricked him, but it was she who was tricked. The odd thing is: De Flores can call her his "equal"(133), and then 4 lines later call her his slave. That's some clever wordplay right there...
(One last note, how good of a sitcom would this make?)
Conversation Piece - Monday, December 8, 2008
"Oh, come not near me, sir; I shall defile you.
I am that of your blood was taken from you
For your better health. Look no more upon't
But cast it to the ground regardlessly;
Let the common sewer take it from distinction.
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing
Was prophet to the rest, bu ne'er believed;
Mine honor fell with him, and now my life."
(The Changeling V.iii.158-67)
I am that of your blood was taken from you
For your better health. Look no more upon't
But cast it to the ground regardlessly;
Let the common sewer take it from distinction.
Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him. My loathing
Was prophet to the rest, bu ne'er believed;
Mine honor fell with him, and now my life."
(The Changeling V.iii.158-67)
