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Mitchener Monologue from Press Cuttings

From Press Cuttings by Bernard Shaw

male · defiant · 1:00 min

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Poltroon. Crybaby. Well, better disgrace yourself here than disgrace your country on the field of battle. THE ORDERLY (angrily coming to the table). Whos going to disgrace his country on the field of battle? Its not fightin I object to: its soljerin. Show me a German and Ill have a go at him as fast as you or any man. But to ave me time wasted like this, an be stuck in a sentry box at a street corner for an ornament to be stared at; and to be told "right about face: march" if I speak as one man to another: that aint pluck: that aint fightin: that aint patriotism: its bein made a bloomin sheep of.

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30s · anger · patriotism · identity · power · freedom

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