Monologue

Nicola Monologue from Arms and the Man

From Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

any · defiant · 1:04 min

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Discharge you for untruthfulness. Who would believe any stories you told after that? Who would give you another situation? Who in this house would dare be seen speaking to you ever again? How long would your father be left on his little farm? Child, you don’t know the power such high people have over the like of you and me when we try to rise out of our poverty against them. Look at me, ten years in their service. Do you think I know no secrets? I know things about the mistress that she wouldn’t have the master know for a thousand levas. I know things about him that she wouldn’t let him hear the last of for six months if I blabbed them to her.

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Nicola confronts another character about the consequences of dishonesty and the oppressive power dynamics at play, revealing secrets that could disrupt relationships and social standings.

20s · fear · power · betrayal · class struggle · identity

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