Monologue

Job Arthur Freer Monologue from Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts

From Touch and Go: A Play in Three Acts by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

male · defiant · 1:18 min

Yes, vermin. Vermin is what lives on other people's lives, living on their lives and profiting by it. We've got 'em in every parish--vermin, I say--that live on the sweat and blood of the people--live on it, and get rich on it--get rich through living on other people's lives, the lives of the working men--living on the bodies of the working men--that's vermin--if it isn't, what is it? And every parish must destroy its own--every parish must destroy its own vermin. (GERALD: The phrase, my God! the phrase.) Phrase or not phrase, there it is, and face it out if you can. There it is--there's not one in every parish--there's more than one--there's a number--- GERALD (suddenly kicking him). Go! (Kicks him.) Go! (Kicks him.) go! (JOB ARTHUR falls.) Get out! (Kicks him.) Get out, I say! Get out, I tell you! Get out! Get out!--Vermin!--Vermin!--I'll vermin you! I'll put my foot through your phrases. Get up, I say, get up and go--GO!

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