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)
Sunday, December 7, 2008
A Warped Apology
When I first started reading this passage I thought it was going to be Beatrice apologizing for what she had done, because lets not forget she is the one who started all this to begin with. But instead, she begins to blame everyone else but herself. I mean she is the one who made the choice to employ De Flores to kill Alonzo. But here in this passage, she starts off by saying she has bad blood; the blood that would have been drained from her father if he had gone and seen the barber. And then she goes on to say that she also could not have helped what happened because of De Flores, and that she was tied to him because of her hatred for him. Not once does she say, you know what I'm partly to blame for what has happened, but instead she tries to blame it on other factors, specifically ones she cannot control like blood and the meteors.
