Monologue

Mrs Arbuthnot Monologue from A Woman of No Importance

From A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde

female · anguished · 1:17 min

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George, don’t take my son away from me. I have had twenty years of sorrow, and I have only had one thing to love me, only one thing to love. You have had a life of joy, and pleasure, and success. You have been quite happy, you have never thought of us. There was no reason, according to your views of life, why you should have remembered us at all. Your meeting us was a mere accident, a horrible accident. Forget it. Don’t come now, and rob me of . . . of all I have in the whole world. You are so rich in other things. Leave me the little vineyard of my life; leave me the walled-in garden and the well of water; the ewe-lamb God sent me, in pity or in wrath, oh! leave me that. George, don’t take Gerald from me.

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Mrs. Arbuthnot pleads with George not to take her son away, expressing her deep sorrow and attachment to him amidst her feelings of isolation and loss.

40s · longing · love · family · loss · isolation

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