How Does Beatrice Affect The Character Of Beatrice

Beatrice is depicted as an innocent girl, childlike and new to the world. Her forced isolation created a keen interest in this outside world. The reader begins to build Beatrice’s personality through Giovanni’s insight describing her as pure and naive because she responds with a “…half childish and half woman-like” tone when Giovanni fist interacts with her (Hawthorne). Beatrice’s innocence itself resonates when speaking to Giovanni, she instantly becomes too trustworthy, as Hawthorne writes that “her spirit gushed out before him like a fresh rill, that was just catching its first glimpse of the sunlight, and wondering, at the reflections of earth and sky which was flung into its bosom” (Hawthorne). While Giovanni and Beatrice’s conversations develop, she speaks of her father and the confinement that was forced upon her, which created her lonely feelings, “the effect
how lonely was thy poor Beatrice!” (Hawthorne). She also describes Giovanni as ‘heaven sent’ making Beatrice’s emotions more appreciative than those of Giovanni’s. When Giovanni ultimately reveals his doubts about Beatrice and their relationship Beatrice is deeply hurt because, for her, this love was pure and new. Even after Giovanni reveals his true colors, Beatrice continues to want a cure for her curse “I will drink—but do thou await the result.” Unlike Giovanni Beatrice “is willing to sacrifice her life for him” when “he is willing to sacrifice nothing for her” (Brenzo, 159). Once the story progresses and the major characters are all in one place all internal emotions come out at once. Beatrice’s reveals how she really feels about her forced confinement to her father, “My father.’ said Beatrice…’wherefor didst thou inflict this miserable doom upon thy child?” (Hawthorne). As Beatrice passes away she states that her death will take her away and no longer will she be feared because “as poison had been life, so the powerful antidote was death”