Monologue

Lord Darlington Monologue from Lady Windermere's Fan

From Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

male · anguished · 58 sec

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If I know you at all, I know that you can’t live with a man who treats you like this! What sort of life would you have with him? You would feel that he was lying to you every moment of the day. You would feel that the look in his eyes was false, his voice false, his touch false, his passion false. He would come to you when he was weary of others; you would have to comfort him. He would come to you when he was devoted to others; you would have to charm him. You would have to be to him the mask of his real life, the cloak to hide his secret.

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Lord Darlington expresses his deep concern for Lady Windermere, highlighting the emotional turmoil and deception in her marriage, urging her to reconsider her situation.

30s · despair · betrayal · identity · love · isolation

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