If the Spirit of the Earth is a kind of macabre dance of the dead sown by Lulu, Pandora's Box presents the inevitable downfall of the heroine, elevating her to a tragic theatrical figure.

By forcing her to go against her nature, she heads swiftly toward her demise; prostitution, a phenomenon of social rather than natural sexuality, is the complete opposite of her being and leads her to destruction.

Pandora's Box begins with Lulu's liberation, achieved by her devoted sexual slaves, led by Countess Geschwitz, a lesbian who follows her as her shadow or like the devil. It ends with Lulu murdered by Jack.

Both the Spirit of the Earth and Pandora's Box reveal a rejection of naturalism, in favor of expressionism that makes the theatrical figures more archetypes than individualities; Lulu exists only as a trigger of her sexual desire.

She is not a human being, possesses no individuality, has no name in the registry, existing only in the gaze of others and through the name given to her by others.

She does not consciously do harm. She does not want to create victims - the victims succumb on their own.