The Changeling Themes
Mindmap on the main themes of The Changeling. More quotes are probably necessary...
- Created by: Zoe
- Created on: 03-06-13 13:16
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- The Changeling Themes
- Love
- Alsemero
- 'I love her dearly'
- 'I love her beauties the holy purpose'
- 'devotion'
- 'admits comparison with man's first creation'
- 'He kisses too!'
- Beatrice
- 'This was the man meant me'
- 'Methinks I love now with the eye of judgement'
- 'I shall change my saint'
- Love as an illness
- 'my infirmity'
- 'not well indeed'
- 'trembling'
- 'whatever ails me'
- 'mad qualm'
- Don't love with reason or logic, but instead with sight and impulse
- Alsemero
- Obsession
- Deflores
- 'cannot choose but love her'
- 'force errands'
- 'thirst'
- 'come into her sight'
- Sexual frankness = moral decay
- 'I'll endure all storms'
- 'I must see her still'
- 'I'll have my will'
- 'Oh my blood!'
- 'she smells all amber'
- ****** excitement linked to her wealth and status
- 'Her honour's prize'
- Motivated by 'sweet recompense'
- Beatrice
- 'my spotless virtue'
- 'dear companion of my soul'
- 'let me go poor unto my bed with honour'
- 'I'm forced to love thee now/'Cause thou provid'st so carefully for my honour'
- 'I am a stranger unto your bed'
- Last thing she wants to admit
- Deflores
- Insanity
- Beatrice
- Joost Daalder: Beatrice is 'wholly mad'
- made blind to reality
- Insane woman amongst sane people
- Sex
- Alsemero acts on fancies
- Lollio = embodiment of the link between sex and madness
- Obsession
- Deflores
- 'cannot choose but love her'
- 'force errands'
- 'thirst'
- 'come into her sight'
- Sexual frankness = moral decay
- 'I'll endure all storms'
- 'I must see her still'
- 'I'll have my will'
- 'Oh my blood!'
- 'she smells all amber'
- ****** excitement linked to her wealth and status
- 'Her honour's prize'
- Motivated by 'sweet recompense'
- Beatrice
- 'my spotless virtue'
- 'dear companion of my soul'
- 'let me go poor unto my bed with honour'
- 'I'm forced to love thee now/'Cause thou provid'st so carefully for my honour'
- 'I am a stranger unto your bed'
- Last thing she wants to admit
- Deflores
- Low Plot
- 'madmen' and 'fools'
- People in the high plot closer to crossing insanity/sanity boundary more than people in the low plot
- Ironically, no named characters are really insane
- Role
- Parallels high plot
- Concerns a woman's virginity
- "good" servant
- Jealous husbands
- Without, drift into madness in the high plot would be less effective
- Parallels high plot
- Beatrice
- Appearance and Reality
- Antonio and Franciscus
- Beatrice
- Appears to be the heroine
- Symbolises chastity, fidelity and piety
- Renaissance ideals of good and evil/beauty and ugliness
- 'fair murderess'
- 'deed's creature'
- Appears to be the heroine
- Deflores
- Facial deformity = evil
- Skin condition a reflection of Beatrice's morality?
- Diaphanta
- Seen as too 'quick' to be a 'maid'
- 'most honest'
- Love
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