Monologue

Mitchener Monologue from Press Cuttings

From Press Cuttings by Bernard Shaw

male · dark · 48 sec

My daughters would not dream of disobeying the proclamation. (As an after thought.) At least Helen wouldnt. (BALSQUITH: But Georgina?) Georgina would if she knew shed be shot if she didnt. Thats how the thing would work. Military methods are really the most merciful in the end. You keep sending these misguided women to Holloway and killing them slowly and inhumanely by ruining their health; and it does no good: they go on worse than ever. Shoot a few, promptly and humanely; and there will be an end at once of all resistance and of all the suffering that resistance entails.

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