Monologue

Helena Monologue from All's Well That Ends Well

From All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

female · defiant · 1:48 min

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Inspired merit so by breath is barr’d. It is not so with Him that all things knows As ’tis with us that square our guess by shows; But most it is presumption in us when The help of heaven we count the act of men. Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent; Of heaven, not me, make an experiment. I am not an impostor, that proclaim Myself against the level of mine aim, But know I think, and think I know most sure, My art is not past power nor you past cure. (KING: Art thou so confident? Within what space Hop’st thou my cure?) The greatest grace lending grace. Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring, Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quench’d her sleepy lamp; Or four and twenty times the pilot’s glass Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass; What is infirm from your sound parts shall fly, Health shall live free, and sickness freely die. (KING: Upon thy certainty and confidence What dar’st thou venture?) Tax of impudence, A strumpet’s boldness, a divulged shame, Traduc’d by odious ballads; my maiden’s name Sear’d otherwise; nay worse of worst extended With vilest torture, let my life be ended.

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Helena expresses her determination to prove her worth and capabilities, seeking the approval of a man while grappling with the complexities of fate and divine intervention.

20s · determination · identity · ambition · redemption · power

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