Monologue

Gerald Monologue from A Woman of No Importance

From A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

male · anguished · 40 sec

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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