Beatrice Baudelaire

Dedications

Beatrice is initially mentioned in the dedications that one finds at the beginning of each book of the series. Lemony Snicket thus seems to attach a great importance to this woman:

All begins… badly:

“For Beatrice - loved well, better loved, lost. ”

the Laboratory with the snakes :

“For missing Beatrice, My tenderness for you remains forever sharp. ”

Hurricane on the lake :

“For you, Beatrice - and I would like so much to know you in life and full form! ”

Nightmare with the sawmill :

“For Beatrice. My love fluttered, Moth,

a bald person mouse has piqué on him,

grabbed It of a feature,

And all is finished. ”

Trap with the college :

“For Beatrice. Forever in my thoughts, my heart - in the tomb. ”

Elevator for the fear :

“For Beatrice. My life started, the day when I met you, a beat of wings later, holds it was completed. ”

the Tree with the corbels :

“For Beatrice. Near you I lost the breath, today it is you who lost the breath - forever. ”

Panic with the private clinic :

“For Beatrice. Without you, the summer is colder than the winter. Without you, the winter is icier still. ”

the wild Festival :

“For Beatrice. Our love broke me the heart. It broke Net the tien. ”

the slipping Slope :

“For Beatrice. At the day of our meeting, you were pretty, I were alone. Today, I am nicely alone. ”

the Cave gorgone :

“For Beatrice. Deaths do not tell history, either the dead ones, the alive ones in the sorrow write some. ”

the Penult Danger :

“For Beatrice. No one could not extinguish my flame, not more than no one did not extinguish those which devoured your home. ”

the End :

“For Beatrice. I loved you, you left us, the world encauchemardé myself. ”

What one believes it

Beatrice is one of the characters most enigmatic of the series, as well because of her importance as of the mysteries which surround it. What is sure, it is that Lemony Snicket of it was passionately in love. Their relation seemed to develop as well as possible because according to his Autobiographie , the author and it were going to marry. To believe the same author of it, very collapsed after an article of the Petit Fastidious showed it wrongly and of a crime (surely a fire). Without it being known why, Beatrice seems to have believed in these slanderings in the point to put a term at her lovesong with the unhappy writer. According to the little bit of information provided to the wire of the account, Beatrice would have then married with another man.

But the worst still remained to be come. At the time of a dressed up ball organized by the duchess of Winnipeg, Lemony Snicket wanted to warn Beatrice of a horrible thing concerning the count Olaf. The evening, according to any probability, turned to the tragedy. It is still impossible to affirm that Beatrice found death this evening, the more so as the author also makes several times allusion in his lines to the which would have turned out badly between Esmé (wife of Jerome Solomon d' Eschmizerre at the same time as main of the count Olaf) and Beatrice. Always it is that the beloved of Lemony Snicket is a priori late at the time when it takes the feather.

It is it however, if one refers to the Unauthorized Autobiography of the writer, who would have of alive sound requested from Lemony Snicket to carry out research concerning the Baudelaire orphans.

Beatrice, mother of Baudelaire?

The relationship, still unknown, between the dedicatee and the Baudelaire children could be much closer than it appears to with it if one refers to the following indices:

Beatrice is held for died and it is known that before her disappearance, she married with another man that Lemony Snicket. This man could be the father of Baudelaire and Beatrice would be then the mother of the three orphans;

In a theatrical criticism reproduced within its Autobiography , Lemony Snicket disparages the part rewritten by the count Olaf whose heroin, then played by Esmé, must whistle the fourteenth symphony of Mozart with a small butter between the teeth; Snicket affirms that only the former actress who played the part of it was able, and that it was promised in marriage to this actress (which would be thus Beatrice). However in the volume three, during a discussion with their Aunt Aggrippine, the Baudelaire children reveal that their mother could whistle the fourteenth symphony of Mozart with a small butter between the teeth. The bringing together is obvious and disconcerting coincidence.

In a chapter of the volume eight, the children are confronted with a list of anagrams. However this list comprises the name of “CARRIE E. ABELABUDITE” and the letters which compose it give “BEATRICE BAUDELAIRE” in another order.

In the last dedication in date, Lemony Snicket implies that the house of Beatrice left in flames. Even if other residences seem to have burned after the Schisme of V.D.C., this allusion brings back to the fire of the Baudelaire manor.

In the last volume (End), Kit require of the Baudelaires orphans to name his child of the first name of one of their relative, like want the tradition. However, one discovers at the end of the novel, that the aforementioned news-born is called… Beatrice.

Tentative conclusion: Beatrice would it be really the mother of Baudelaire? One can as suppose as all these indices, are there only to muddle the reader and to forward it to a misleading reasoning. With Lemony Snicket indeed, nothing is never as simple as it appears to with it…

Recently, new except series appeared on September 5th in the anglophone countries, " The Beatrice Letters" , brings to us a very important lighting on the character, who constitutes the principal subject of the work. With the reading of this book, it appears a concept very surprising, and which would mainly explain points obscure of the intrigue: there would not exist only one Beatrice Baudelaire, but two! In volume 13, one discovers that there is initially the amante of Lemony (Beatrice Baudelaire, perhaps mother of the heroes), and his/her niece, girl of Kit Snicket.

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