Monologue

Miss Prism Monologue from The Importance of Being Earnest

From The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

female · comedic · 57 sec

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Lady Bracknell, I admit with shame that I do not know. I only wish I did. The plain facts of the case are these. On the morning of the day you mention, a day that is for ever branded on my memory, I prepared as usual to take the baby out in its perambulator. I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious hand-bag in which I had intended to place the manuscript of a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours. In a moment of mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive myself, I deposited the manuscript in the basinette, and placed the baby in the hand-bag.

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Miss Prism is recounting a past incident involving a baby and a manuscript, revealing her embarrassment and confusion over a mix-up that has significant implications.

30s · confusion · identity · family · redemption

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