Monologue

Liza Monologue from Pygmalion

From Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

female · defiant · 54 sec

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You don’t call the like of them my friends now, I should hope. They’ve took it out of me often enough with their ridicule when they had the chance; and now I mean to get a bit of my own back. But if I’m to have fashionable clothes, I’ll wait. I should like to have some. Mrs. Pearce says you’re going to give me some to wear in bed at night different to what I wear in the daytime; but it do seem a waste of money when you could get something to show. Besides, I never could fancy changing into cold things on a winter night.

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Liza expresses her frustration and determination to reclaim her dignity after being ridiculed by those she considers beneath her. She grapples with her desire for fashionable clothing while questioning its practicality and value.

20s · anger · identity · revenge · ambition · social class

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