Monologue

Mich Monologue from Vera

From Vera by Oscar Wilde

male · dark · 1:13 min

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I waited. All through the dreary watches of our long Russian night I waited, that I might kill you with your Judas hire still hot in your hand. But you never came out; you never left that palace at all. I saw the blood-red sun rise through the yellow fog over the murky town; I saw a new day of oppression dawn on Russia; but you never came out. So you pass nights in the palace, do you? You know the password for the guards! you have a key to a secret door. Oh, you are a spy--you are a spy! I never trusted you, (28) with your soft white hands, your curled hair, your pretty graces. (28) You have no mark of suffering about you; you cannot be of the people. You are a spy-- (29) a spy--traitor. (29)

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Mich is in a state of intense emotional turmoil as he confronts a perceived traitor hiding within a palace, reflecting on themes of betrayal and oppression in Russia.

30s · anger · betrayal · power · isolation · revenge

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