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Nora Monologue from In the Shadow of the Glen

From In the Shadow of the Glen by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

female · anguished · 1:16 min

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I’m thinking it’s myself will be wheezing that time with lying down under the Heavens when the night is cold; but you’ve a fine bit of talk, stranger, and it’s with yourself I’ll go. (She goes towards the door, then turns to Dan.) You think it’s a grand thing you’re after doing with your letting on to be dead, but what is it at all? What way would a woman live in a lonesome place the like of this place, and she not making a talk with the men passing? And what way will yourself live from this day, with none to care for you? What is it you’ll have now but a black life, Daniel Burke, and it’s not long I’m telling you, till you’ll be lying again under that sheet, and you dead surely. (She goes out with the Tramp. Micheal is slinking after them, but Dan stops him.)

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20s · despair · isolation · death · identity · longing

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