I agree that Beatrice isn't really taking any blame on herself. Though she is demeaning herself and saying she's just her father's bad blood, she isn't really taking any responsibility. Instead, she's just saying that she could not help what she did because of her nature. She's even blaming fate, rather than take any responsibilty:
"Beneath the stars, upon yon meteor
Ever hung my fate, 'mongst things corruptible;
I ne'er could pluck it from him"(5).
Here she makes her actions seem an inevitable course of nature. Though Beatrice is now found out, she does not redeem herself in the audience's eyes by repenting at all.And just because I'm listening to this song right now, I think Beatrice should have sung Akon's "Blame on Me":
"I’m sorry your life turned out this way
I’m sorry that the FEDS came and took me away
You can put the blame on me
Said you can put the blame on me".
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)
