Monologue

Lady Hunstanton Monologue from A Woman of No Importance

From A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

female · contemplative · 1:11 min

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(Rising.) A bad headache! I am so sorry! Perhaps you’ll bring her up to Hunstanton this afternoon, if she is better, Gerald. (GERALD: I am afraid not this afternoon, Lady Hunstanton.) Well, to-morrow, then. Ah, if you had a father, Gerald, he wouldn’t let you waste your life here. He would send you off with Lord Illingworth at once. But mothers are so weak. They give up to their sons in everything. We are all heart, all heart. Come, dear, I must call at the rectory and inquire for Mrs. Daubeny, who, I am afraid, is far from well. It is wonderful how the Archdeacon bears up, quite wonderful. He is the most sympathetic of husbands. Quite a model. Good-bye, Gerald, give my fondest love to your mother.

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Lady Hunstanton expresses her concerns about her son Gerald's future and reflects on the dynamics of parental influence, while also addressing the health of a mutual acquaintance.

40s · longing · family · power · identity · health

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