Monologue

Jennifer Monologue from The Doctor's Dilemma

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 1:02 min

You know you would not dare to say such a silly thing as that to anybody but a woman whose mind you despise. If you dissected me you could not find my conscience. Do you think I have got none? (RIDGEON: I have met people who had none.) Clever brutes? Do you know, doctor, that some of the dearest and most faithful friends I ever had were only brutes! You would have vivisected them. The dearest and greatest of all my friends had a sort of beauty and affectionateness that only animals have. I hope you may never feel what I felt when I had to put him into the hands of men who defend the torture of animals because they are only brutes.

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30s · anger · identity · power · betrayal · freedom

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