Mangan Monologue from Heartbreak House

From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw

male · anguished · 51 sec

People think I have. People think I'm an industrial Napoleon. That's why Miss Ellie wants to marry me. But I tell you I have nothing. (ELLIE: Do you mean that the factories are like Marcus's tigers? That they don't exist?) They exist all right enough. But they're not mine. They belong to syndicates and shareholders and all sorts of lazy good-for-nothing capitalists. I get money from such people to start the factories. I find people like Miss Dunn's father to work them, and keep a tight hand so as to make them pay. Of course I make them keep me going pretty well; but it's a dog's life; and I don't own anything.

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