Monologue

Hotchkiss Monologue from Getting Married

From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:16 min

Then you must have noticed that just an all murderers, judging by their edifying remarks on the scaffold, seem to be devout Christians, so all Christians, both male and female, are invariably people over-flowing with domestic sentimentality and professions of respect for the conventions they violate in secret. (MRS GEORGE: Well, you dont expect them to give themselves away, do you?) They are people of sentiment, not of honor. Now, I'm not a man of sentiment, but a man of honor. I know well what will happen to me when once I cross the threshold of your husband's house and break bread with him. This marriage bond which I despise will bind me as it never seems to bind the people who believe in it, and whose chief amusement it is to go to the theatres where it is laughed at. Soames: youre a Communist, arnt you? (SOAMES: I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.) And you believe that many of our landed estates were stolen from the Church by Henry the eighth?

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