Carlyon Monologue from Carlyon Sahib: A Drama in Four Acts

From Carlyon Sahib: A Drama in Four Acts by Gilbert Murray

male · dramatic · 1:00 min

It is not really that. Only I have never felt sure that you were strong enough. You have grown up in such seclusion, such entire ignorance of the world. (VERA: I have done men's work at the University.) Students' work! A student is as ignorant as a woman. I doubt still if the rude facts of life will not be too great a shock for you to face. (VERA: Not with you, father.) You know, Vera, a man's conscience and a woman's conscience are different things. A man has greater difficulties to face, and must risk doing greater wrongs, just as he is called upon to make greater sacrifices for his duty--things that a woman knows nothing of. [ Takes VERA to the seat L., and brings a chair near her.

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