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)
Monday, December 8, 2008
It seems like she was damned from the start
I agree with the others about her not taking responsibility for anything she's done. This speech is especially self-pitying in her wish to be removed from everyone. Her desire to be separated from everyone else began earlier in the play when De Flores suggested that she only ally herself to him and forsakes her family. Now she has continued his sentiment and hopes that she be discarded from her family, which is further emphasized through her mention of being physically removed, as though she were an ailment, from her father's blood. She seems to suggest that her corruption was not her fault but that she was destined for it and yet she allows for her corruption to have stemmed from her hatred for De Flores. In the end she seems willing to take minimal amount of blame by either suggesting that she was always doomed or that it stemmed from her early hatred. She does, however, admit that she is entirely wicked now.
