Monologue

Romeo Monologue from Romeo and Juliet

From Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

male · dark · 1:12 min

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Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron. Hold, take this letter; early in the morning See thou deliver it to my lord and father. Give me the light; upon thy life I charge thee, Whate’er thou hear’st or seest, stand all aloof And do not interrupt me in my course. Why I descend into this bed of death Is partly to behold my lady’s face, But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger A precious ring, a ring that I must use In dear employment. Therefore hence, be gone. But if thou jealous dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven I will tear thee joint by joint, And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. The time and my intents are savage-wild; More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

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Romeo prepares to enter the tomb of Juliet, driven by a desperate need to reclaim a precious ring and confront the gravity of death and love.

20s · determination · death · love · revenge · fate

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