Ickapoo is a loving Alien. He seeks to profit Others rather than himself, unlike many political rulers.
The Duchess of Malfi is about the failed attempt by the Duchess to assert her female identity as a wife and mother with autonomy from her corrupt and evil brothers Ferdinand and the Cardinal. When widowed, the Duchess is given explicit commands by her brothers not to remarry as they deem it a threat to their power if she were to marry to any non strategic man not aligned to their corrupt plans for power. Nonetheless, the Duchess defiantly goes ahead with her pursuit of Antonio her servant who is deemed inferior to her but whom she has a genuine attachment to emotionally and spiritually and whom she truly views as a partner in courtship and love with whom she has a fruitful marriage bles
