Monologue

Cominius Monologue from Coriolanus

From Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

male · anguished · 56 sec

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He’ll never hear him. (SICINIUS: Not?) I tell you, he does sit in gold, his eye Red as ’twould burn Rome; and his injury The jailer to his pity. I kneeled before him; ’Twas very faintly he said “Rise”; dismissed me Thus with his speechless hand. What he would do He sent in writing after me; what he Would not, bound with an oath to yield to his Conditions. So that all hope is vain Unless his noble mother and his wife, Who, as I hear, mean to solicit him For mercy to his country. Therefore let’s hence And with our fair entreaties haste them on. (Exeunt.)

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Cominius expresses his deep concern over the fate of Rome and the challenges posed by Coriolanus, highlighting the urgency of appealing to his mother and wife for mercy.

40s · despair · power · family · honor · mercy

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