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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
And yet, still she is dead in the end.  |
Well, yes. But it was a great ride. I'd have loved to see her triumph once more - if only she had pushed on a little farther! There are echoes of the flight to Varennes where if only the royal family hadn't dawdled so, they might have made it. And as I said, Buckingham was portrayed as mostly a good guy and he ended up just as dead. (Well, he had to, as that's what happened.)
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Yes, she is condemned to death by the vigilantes mostly on suspicion of misdeeds rather than because of any clear evidence. The only exception I think is her killing of Constance, and that was pure vindictiveness, so harder to forgive.
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She didn't have much choice when it came to Constance, in order to save her own skin. If Constance hadn't swooned at the critical moment (those women and their fainting fits!), Milady would have hauled her along. And as you pointed out somewhere upthread,
Bookpossum, Constance did have to be killed off. It was hard to see her as moral when she was a married woman.