tess: He no longer loves me. (pg130)He might not be in love with her but his pride still allows him to be jealous of all those who hold affections for her. He banishes the page Cherubin when he believes that the boy holds feelings towards his wife:Count: Give him fifty crowns and a horse, and send him home to his family.The Countess intercedes and solicits a pardon on his behalf from the Count; but being the jealous man he is the Count sends the boy to join the army, and from his words one can intonate that he believes the boy will never return.The Countess herself appears to be torn between two emotions, on the one hand she still loves her husband dearly, yet on the other she resents his apathy towards her. She is both amiable and virtuous, aiding those in trouble and siding with Fiagaro and Suzzanne against the Count.The other main female part in the play is that of Marceline, an ambiguous and inconsistent character. Early in the play she stand as Suzzannes comic rival, a farcical duenna. Marceline is desperate to be married to either Figaro or to the good Doctor Bartholo to whom she has already had a child.She is successful in her aims by finally acquiring the hand of the Doctor in marriage. It turns out that she also finds the child she bore, who, coincidentally enough, is Figaro.The play ends on a happier note. Suzzanne and the Countess plot to trick the men in their lives. Suzzanne dresses as the Countess and the Countess dresses as Suzanne. The farce of mistaken identities is exploited with ingenuity. Figaro goes down on his knees before the woman he believes is the Countess, but who is really Suzzanne, and the Count makes advances on the woman he takes to be Suzzanne but who is really the Countess. He says to her(still believing her to be Suzzanne):I love her very much , but three years together makes marriage very respectable (pg.205)So we find out, as does the Countess that...
