• pg 105-106
• (clock strikes twice): time is truncated, to bring out her patience, anticipation, anxiety. also has a nightmarish effect -> the play is hurdling towards its nightmarish ending
• Repetition of 'my' -> brings out her self serving nature.
• Irony conveyed in her speech: 'strumpet' (loose woman/whore)/ 'that cannot rule her blood' -> when she herself has loose morals; she herself can't control her own passions for Alsemero and acts foolishly

p. 48:

• 'hunger and pleasure, they'll commend sometimes'
• historical stereotypes: women seen as being more susceptible/prone to moral failings, inability to control themselves sexually.

p. 106-107

• Deflores mentions that Diaphanta steals Beatrice's 'ladies first-fruits' -> overstepping her boundaries, IRONIC, since Deflores disrupts hierarchy by raping Beatrice.
• 'mad whelps': animal imagery is a motif that pervades both settings
• 'phosphorus' refers to lucifer - signals the threat of evil that looms of the horizon as they plot Diaphanta's death

pg. 108-109

• 'mist of conscience': Alsemero's ghost as described by Deflores, may be a projection of D's guilt. Or the appearance of his ghost is a reminder that they cannot escape punishment for their crime.
• 'the east is not more beauteous than his service': Christian association of the sun rising BUT THERE IS AN IRONIC CONTRAST between the christian imagery and Deflore's association to lucifer: her habituation to evil achieved. Beatrice, who is transformed from a proud, amoral girl to a perverted, degraded woman whose mechanical repentance before her death is empty and meaningless.

p. 107, 108, 109

• foreshadows the purging (expel impurities) that happens at the end of the play - Beatrice and Deflores.
  • they must be purged in order for the traditional male order to be restored.

X ref, p. 156, line 150

• 'that of your blood was taken from you' -> medical practice of blood letting: beatrice is the impurity here. transgressive females like beatrice has to be purged from society.
  • rebellious female is purged at the end: a message to the audience

tomazo, pg. 113:

• Sunken into a state of cynicm, such is the effects of grief on a person
• 'bloody' -> bitterness over the loss of his brother
• 'man I grow weary of' -> inverse syntax, man is said first, brings out Tomazo's distrust
• Ironic coincidence that Deflores enters the scene

P. 113-114

• Absolutes: 'so foul'/'most venomous' -> tomazo is a changeling

p. 114

• 'Fresh bleeding in his eye' Unprecedented moral clarity and remorse from Deflores, since he can recall Alonzo's wounds clearly

Castle motif -> women are property, brings about the idea that women are objectified.

p.113-114

p.121

• thou art all deformed -> brings out the connection between Beatrice (beauty) and Deflores (deformity); Deflores' outward deformity mirrors Beatrice's internal monstrosity
• p. 118-119: I'll ransack' your body: Alsemero positions Beatrice as a building to be damaged and pillaged