Monologue

Orlando Monologue from As You Like It

From As You Like It by William Shakespeare

male · anguished · 53 sec

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I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts, wherein I confess me much guilty to deny so fair and excellent ladies anything. But let your fair eyes and gentle wishes go with me to my trial, wherein if I be foiled there is but one shamed that was never gracious; if killed, but one dead that is willing to be so. I shall do my friends no wrong, for I have none to lament me; the world no injury, for in it I have nothing. Only in the world I fill up a place, which may be better supplied when I have made it empty.

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Orlando stands alone, grappling with his sense of worth and the consequences of his actions as he prepares for a trial that could lead to his downfall.

20s · despair · identity · isolation · death · fate

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