Monologue

Doolittle Monologue from Pygmalion

From Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

male · anguished · 1:03 min

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Tell her so, Governor: tell her so. I’m willing. It’s me that suffers by it. I’ve no hold on her. I got to be agreeable to her. I got to give her presents. I got to buy her clothes something sinful. I’m a slave to that woman, Governor, just because I’m not her lawful husband. And she knows it too. Catch her marrying me! Take my advice, Governor: marry Eliza while she’s young and don’t know no better. If you don’t you’ll be sorry for it after. If you do, she’ll be sorry for it after; but better you than her, because you’re a man, and she’s only a woman and don’t know how to be happy anyhow.

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Doolittle expresses his frustrations about his relationship with Eliza, revealing his feelings of entrapment and societal expectations while advising another character on the complexities of marriage.

40s · despair · power · identity · freedom · gender

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