Monologue

Gerald Monologue from A Woman of No Importance

From A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

male · anguished · 1:07 min

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I will insist upon his doing it. I will make him do it: he will not dare to refuse. (MRS. ARBUTHNOT: But, Gerald, it is I who refuse. I will not marry Lord Illingworth.) Not marry him? Mother! (MRS. ARBUTHNOT: I will not marry him.) But you don’t understand: it is for your sake I am talking, not for mine. This marriage, this necessary marriage, this marriage which for obvious reasons must inevitably take place, will not help me, will not give me a name that will be really, rightly mine to bear. But surely it will be something for you, that you, my mother, should, however late, become the wife of the man who is my father. Will not that be something?

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Gerald expresses his feelings about an impending marriage that he believes is necessary for his mother, revealing his internal conflict and desire for familial connection.

20s · longing · family · identity · marriage · honor

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