#jack point

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She is a young (17!) travelling performer who is almost assaulted twice in her first appearance where she is literally just doing her job as a performer,hen her poverty/lower class status is taken advantage of and she gives away the only thing (to society at least) she has: her unmarried status. She's already engaged to her travelling companion Point, and they seem to be equal with one another and have genuine affection and get each others consent to go through with the wedding as she is promised the man will die and she can go on her way and marry Point later and no one will ever know.

In her aria she's clearly upset about this marriage and marrying as just a monetary contract Vs love and what her role in society is. She's also shown to be an empathetic person who, despite not loving Fairfax is sad that anyone should have to be executed.

Then, despite knowing this girl has just signed away her life to them, the group who set up the wedding form a plan to help Fairfax to escape without any consideration for how this will impact Elsie and Point's life.

When Fairfax finds out Elsie is his wife he's only interested because she's pretty - it's also established he knows Elsie was already engaged and only did this to fund her and Point - and then corners her, while pretending to be someone else (Leonard) and tries to seduce her to 'test her loyalties' but doesn't stop after she tells him she's married and will not betray him.

Fairfax then is a dick to Point and flaunts his seduction of Elsie to him and proposes to Elsie while still pretending to be Leonard.

At the end he then, for no reason whatsoever, decides to torture Elsie by making her believe she now cannot marry Leonard and that she's going to be forced into a loveless marriage. She literally declares she would rather be dead than have agreed to the marriage but will honour her duty. Then Fairfax reveals himself to Elsie as having been Leonard.

And then, to add to the emotional whiplash Elsie goes through, Point kills himself in front of her because she's marrying someone else.

She's a young girl who is constantly having her emotions toyed with, who's poor/traveller status is exploited, her innocence is also exploited by Fairfax's manipulative seduction, and then she loses the one person she had who was on her, not Fairfax and co's, side and is left with nothing but a husband who it's made clear doesn't particularly care about her as a person but she thinks it's love...for now..

Gilbert and Sullivan sketches