Monologue

Helena Monologue from All's Well That Ends Well

From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

female · contemplative · 1:22 min

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Not my virginity yet. There shall your master have a thousand loves, A mother, and a mistress, and a friend, A phoenix, captain, and an enemy, A guide, a goddess, and a sovereign, A counsellor, a traitress, and a dear: His humble ambition, proud humility, His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet, His faith, his sweet disaster; with a world Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms That blinking Cupid gossips. Now shall he— I know not what he shall. God send him well! The court’s a learning-place; and he is one. (PAROLLES: What one, i’ faith?) That I wish well. ’Tis pity— (PAROLLES: What’s pity?) That wishing well had not a body in’t Which might be felt, that we, the poorer born, Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes, Might with effects of them follow our friends, And show what we alone must think, which never Returns us thanks. Enter a Page.

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Helena reflects on the complexities of love and ambition, expressing her hopes and uncertainties regarding her master's future in a court filled with various relationships.

20s · longing · love · identity · ambition · fate

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