Mangan Monologue from Heartbreak House

From Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:03 min

Shame! What shame is there in this house? Let's all strip stark naked. We may as well do the thing thoroughly when we're about it. We've stripped ourselves morally naked: well, let us strip ourselves physically naked as well, and see how we like it. I tell you I can't bear this. I was brought up to be respectable. I don't mind the women dyeing their hair and the men drinking: it's human nature. But it's not human nature to tell everybody about it. Every time one of you opens your mouth I go like this (he cowers as if to avoid a missile), afraid of what will come next. How are we to have any self-respect if we don't keep it up that we're better than we really are?

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