And now methinks I could e'en chide myself
For doting on her beauty, though her death
Shall be revenged after no common action. (III.v.68-70)

Thus far in the play, I find it hard to make sense of Vindice. He is bent on revenging the death of his beloved. Vindice also shows great concern for the chastity of his younger sister Castiza. Yet at times, his view of love and women aligns more closely to the lustful, treacherous male characters that surround him than someone with deep emotional attachments to women. In act I, he quotes the wisdom of his father, stating that "Wives are but made to go to bed and feed" (I.i.137). He couples this shallow view of women with his lines in act III, lamenting his adoration of a female form that now is but a skull. Furthermore, it has taken him nine years to put together his plot for revenge. Why would it take him so long to avenge his love's murder? To me, Vindice's quest for revenged conflicts with his view of women and his actions. He doesn't seem that much different from the lecherous royal family that he seeks to destroy.