Finis

Vindice: "Ah, the fly-flap of vengeance beat 'em to pieces!
Here was the sweetest occasion, the fittest hour, to have
made my revenge familiar with him, shown him the body
of the Duke his father and how quaintly he died, like a
politician in hugger-mugger; made no man acquainted
with it, and, in catastrophe, slain him over his father's
breast; and oh, I'm mad to lose such a sweet opportunity!" (5.1.15-21)

Is it just me, or does it just seem odd that Vindice has no problem USING the dead in his plot for vengeance? First, he disguised his dead fiancee's skull to trick the Duke, and now...uh oh...he's done it again! This time with the Duke's body. The man has no respect for the sanctity of the bodies of these dead people, and I don't think it was because he despised these people (unlike the Duke, he loved his fiancee). Maybe it was because he went slightly psycho after the death of his bride (and who could blame him). I mean, to use the skull of his fiancee to trick the Duke, and then to use the Duke's mutilated body to trick Lussurioso...that's just kind of sick and twisted.

On another note, I thought it was interesting that the characters in this play were killed off so fast; it was like a cascade effect, one stab right after another. It made it seem as though the play was spiraling down, out of control, until it hit rock bottom. Finis.