Monologue

Andrew Monologue from The Land of Heart's Desire

From The Land of Heart's Desire by W.B. Yeats

male · defiant · 1:16 min

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You will not find them to help you. They were scattering themselves through the drinking-houses of the town, and why wouldn’t they? (THOMAS: Are you drunk too? You are worse than Martin. You are a disgrace!) Disgrace yourself! Coming here to be making an attack on me and badgering me and disparaging me! And what about yourself that turned me to be a hypocrite? (THOMAS: What are you saying?) You did, I tell you! Weren’t you always at me to be regular and to be working and to be going through the day and the night without company and to be thinking of nothing but the trade? What did I want with a trade? I got a sight of the fairy gold one time in the mountains. I would have found it again and brought riches from it but for you keeping me so close to the work.

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Andrew expresses frustration towards a figure who has constrained his ambitions and dreams, revealing a conflict between duty and desire.

30s · anger · ambition · freedom · isolation · identity

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