 Although Isabella murders both her husbands, the narrator suggests that this would have all been avoided had Isabella not been led by others to make a monastic vow when she was still too young to understand its implications.Elizabeth Matthews calls Isabella 'a vulnerable body caught in the trap of her life', and suggests that Behn predominantly depicted her as an agonized victim who tries but fails to escape her dark fate.Behn, as a 17th-century woman writer, in today's modern world is analyzed rather than ridiculed for her writing.