Monologue

Alexas Monologue from All for Love

From All for Love by John Dryden

male · anguished · 58 sec

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This downright fighting fool, this thick-skulled hero, This blunt, unthinking instrument of death, With plain dull virtue has outgone my wit. Pleasure forsook my earliest infancy; The luxury of others robbed my cradle, And ravished thence the promise of a man. Cast out from nature, disinherited Of what her meanest children claim by kind, Yet greatness kept me from contempt: that's gone. Had Cleopatra followed my advice, Then he had been betrayed who now forsakes. She dies for love; but she has known its joys: Gods, is this just, that I, who know no joys, Must die, because she loves? O madam, I have seen what blasts my eyes! Octavia's here.

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Alexas reflects on his feelings of betrayal and isolation as he laments Cleopatra's love for another, expressing deep sorrow over his own lack of joy and the consequences of love.

30s · sadness · love · betrayal · isolation · death

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