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Absolute Monologue from The Rivals

From The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

male · defiant · 52 sec

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I have not patience to listen to you! thou'rt incorrigible! so say no more on the subject. I must go to settle a few matters. Let me see you before six, remember, at my lodgings. A poor industrious devil like me, who have toiled, and drudged, and plotted to gain my ends, and am at last disappointed by other people's folly, may in pity be allowed to swear and grumble a little; but a captious sceptic in love, a slave to fretfulness and whim, who has no difficulties but of his own creating, is a subject more fit for ridicule than compassion!

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Absolute expresses his frustration with a friend, feeling burdened by his own ambitions and the folly of others, while demanding a meeting to resolve personal matters.

20s · anger · ambition · frustration · identity

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