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Originally Posted by gmw
It's no longer certain that at least some of this behaviour is not manipulative. We've already seen what she is capable of during her captivity in England.
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So her cries are having an effect. Remember that a variation of this sort of thing is how she escapes from captivity in England (she keeps trying things until she finds one that looks like working), but over there we get to see it from her perspective, so the deception is obvious. And it was made obvious in those scenes that she was never going to go quietly. Here we don't get her perspective, and even if we did, it must be obvious that the chances of escape are almost non-existent - but still she keeps trying.
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I did not get the sense that Milady's terror-filled outbursts at the end were manipulative; her cajoling and empty threats and attempts to bargain for her life were, but her terror seemed real. And of course she had reason for
feeling terror, but what seems out of character is so blatantly
showing that terror to these men arrayed against her.
If manipulation was her aim, I think that she would more likely have tried to play the noble martyr or pretend to repent. She could have woven a story with herself as victim--that would have been worth a shot at least; it worked with Felton.
Or she could have glared defiantly at the men and died with dignity.
But I suppose in that male-dominated story, it wasn't enough for her to be beheaded, she had to be shown to be contemptibly weak as well.