Monologue

Cecil Graham Monologue from Lady Windermere's Fan

From Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

male · comedic · 1:27 min

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(Bows to LADY WINDERMERE, passes over and shakes hands with LORD WINDERMERE.) Good evening, Arthur. Why don’t you ask me how I am? I like people to ask me how I am. It shows a wide-spread interest in my health. Now, to-night I am not at all well. Been dining with my people. Wonder why it is one’s people are always so tedious? My father would talk morality after dinner. I told him he was old enough to know better. But my experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all. Hallo, Tuppy! Hear you’re going to be married again; thought you were tired of that game. (LORD AUGUSTUS: You’re excessively trivial, my dear boy, excessively trivial!) By the way, Tuppy, which is it? Have you been twice married and once divorced, or twice divorced and once married? I say you’ve been twice divorced and once married. It seems so much more probable.

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Cecil Graham engages in a light-hearted yet sarcastic conversation with Arthur, reflecting on the tediousness of family interactions and societal norms surrounding marriage.

30s · sarcasm · family · identity · marriage · social expectations

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