Monologue

Hegan Monologue from The Machine

From The Machine by Upton Sinclair

male · anguished · 1:22 min

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I see, my dear, that you are frightfully overwrought, and that you are making yourself ill. Can't you imagine what it means to me to have you acting in this way? Here I am at one of the gravest crises of my life; I am working day and night, under frightful strain... I have hardly slept six hours in the past three days. And here, when I get a chance for a moment's rest, you come and put me through such an ordeal! You never think of that! (LAURA: It's just what I do think of! Why must you torture yourself so? Why...) My dear, I, too, am in the grip of the system you speak of. (LAURA: But why? Why stay in it? Haven't we money enough yet?) I have duties by which I am bound... interests that I must protect. How can I... (A knock.) Come in!

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30s · fear · power · duty · isolation · ambition

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