Monologue

Grace Monologue from Bartholomew Fair

From Bartholomew Fair by Ben Jonson

female · defiant · 1:03 min

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If you both love me, as you pretend, your own reason will tell you, but one can enjoy me: and to that point there leads a directer line, than by my infamy, which must follow, if you fight. 'Tis true, I have profest it to you ingenuously, that rather than to be yoked with this bridegroom is appointed me, I would take up any husband almost upon any trust; though subtlety would say to me, I know, he is a fool, and has an estate, and I might govern him, and enjoy a friend beside: but these are not my aims; I must have a husband I must love, or I cannot live with him. I shall ill make one of these politic wives.

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Grace expresses her desire for genuine love over societal expectations, revealing her internal conflict about an arranged marriage and the implications of her choices.

20s · longing · love · identity · freedom · power

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