Monologue

Mrs Monologue from You Never Can Tell

From You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw

female · philosophical · 1:30 min

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CLANDON (resolutely). Yes: I have not gone back one inch; and I have educated Gloria to take up my work where I left it. That is what has brought me back to England: I felt that I had no right to bury her alive in Madeira--my St. Helena, Finch. I suppose she will be howled at as I was; but she is prepared for that. McCOMAS. Howled at! My dear good lady: there is nothing in any of those views now-a-days to prevent her from marrying a bishop. You reproached me just now for having become respectable. You were wrong: I hold to our old opinions as strongly as ever. I don't go to church; and I don't pretend I do. I call myself what I am: a Philosophic Radical, standing for liberty and the rights of the individual, as I learnt to do from my master Herbert Spencer. Am I howled at? No: I'm indulged as an old fogey. I'm out of everything, because I've refused to bow the knee to Socialism.

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Mrs. Clandon expresses her resolve to educate her daughter Gloria to continue her work and confront societal expectations, reflecting on her own past experiences and the challenges ahead.

40s · determination · identity · freedom · family · social norms

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