Wedekind’s second variant woman is the tailored and monocled English countess slavishly bound to Lulu, central figure of his symbolic dramas, _Earth Spirit_ and _Pandora’s Box_. Lulu represents amoral, or, one might say, purely biological Woman. She is irresistible to the male, and knowledge of her brings brief ecstasy and lasting devastation. But she is as much victim of the force within her as are the men she enslaves. She is driven to murder in self-defense; then, fleeing the law in more and more desperate circumstances, she herself is murdered by an underworld wretch modeled upon Jack the Ripper. The English woman alone of all her lovers goes unrewarded throughout years of abject devotion, for Lulu is too completely Woman to feel any response save to Man. The countess not only exhausts her fortune in the service of her beloved, but at one point voluntarily contracts cholera so that she can enter the hospital where Lulu is hiding from justice; thus permitting Lulu to escape by assuming her clothing and identity. (It could be that the plot of the later _Urningsliebe_ had its germ in this devotion.) In the end, realizing that Lulu has always wilfully used her, the countess attempts suicide, but Lulu feels neither pity nor compunction. She tells Jack—the man who finally kills them both—that the countess is her sister and insane, but his sophisticated intuition suggests the truth. He strokes the Englishwoman’s head and mutters ‘Poor creature,’ quite the only sympathy she has ever received. It does not, however, prevent Jack’s knifing her when she attempts to defend Lulu against him. Just before this happens, in a solitary monologue, the countess says: ‘I am not a man, my body has nothing in common with those of men. Is it that I have a man’s soul? But tormented men have small and narrow souls, and I know that is not my case, when I have given up everything, made every sacrifice.’[20] She resolves to leave Lulu, who, she realizes, has from the beginning felt an uncontrollable antipathy to her. She will study law and devote the rest of her life to fighting for the rights of women—the implication being, of women like herself rather than the _Ewigweibliche_. It is at this point that the apache’s knife ends her unhappy existence.