Monologue

Lady Markby Monologue from An Ideal Husband

From An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

female · sarcastic · 57 sec

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Ah yes, I suppose it must have been at the Opera. The fact is, we all scramble and jostle so much nowadays that I wonder we have anything at all left on us at the end of an evening. I know myself that, when I am coming back from the Drawing Room, I always feel as if I hadn’t a shred on me, except a small shred of decent reputation, just enough to prevent the lower classes making painful observations through the windows of the carriage. The fact is that our Society is terribly over-populated. Really, some one should arrange a proper scheme of assisted emigration. It would do a great deal of good.

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Lady Markby reflects on the superficiality and pressures of high society while expressing her concerns about the state of social dynamics.

40s · melancholy · society · identity · reputation · isolation

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