Margaret Monologue from Fanny's First Play

From Fanny's First Play by Bernard Shaw

female · philosophical · 1:04 min

Then I suppose what I did was not evil; or else I was set free for evil as well as good. As father says, you cant have anything both ways at once. When I was at home and at school I was what you call good; but I wasnt free. And when I got free I was what most people would call not good. But I see no harm in what I did; though I see plenty in what other people did to me. (MRS KNOX: I hope you dont think yourself a heroine of romance.) Oh no. (She sits down again at the table). I'm a heroine of reality, if you can call me a heroine at all. And reality is pretty brutal, pretty filthy, when you come to grips with it. Yet it's glorious all the same. It's so real and satisfactory.

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