Barbara Monologue from Major Barbara

From Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 56 sec

And leave the east end to starve? UNDERSHAFT (his energetic tone dropping into one of bitter and brooding remembrance) I was an east ender. I moralized and starved until one day I swore that I would be a fullfed free man at all costs--that nothing should stop me except a bullet, neither reason nor morals nor the lives of other men. I said "Thou shalt starve ere I starve"; and with that word I became free and great. I was a dangerous man until I had my will: now I am a useful, beneficent, kindly person. That is the history of most self-made millionaires, I fancy. When it is the history of every Englishman we shall have an England worth living in.

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