Monologue

Rosalind Monologue from As You Like It

From As You Like It by William Shakespeare

female · sarcastic · 1:11 min

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No, faith, die by attorney. The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person, _videlicet_, in a love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed out with a Grecian club, yet he did what he could to die before, and he is one of the patterns of love. Leander, he would have lived many a fair year though Hero had turned nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night; for, good youth, he went but forth to wash him in the Hellespont and, being taken with the cramp, was drowned; and the foolish chroniclers of that age found it was Hero of Sestos. But these are all lies. Men have died from time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

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Rosalind critiques the notion of dying for love, using historical examples to highlight the absurdity of such romantic ideals.

20s · disgust · love · death · identity · deception

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