Monologue

Rosalind Monologue from As You Like It

From As You Like It by William Shakespeare

female · anguished · 1:05 min

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Why, thy godhead laid apart, Warr’st thou with a woman’s heart? Did you ever hear such railing? Whiles the eye of man did woo me, That could do no vengeance to me. Meaning me a beast. If the scorn of your bright eyne Have power to raise such love in mine, Alack, in me what strange effect Would they work in mild aspect? Whiles you chid me, I did love, How then might your prayers move? He that brings this love to thee Little knows this love in me; And by him seal up thy mind, Whether that thy youth and kind Will the faithful offer take Of me, and all that I can make, Or else by him my love deny, And then I’ll study how to die.

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Rosalind expresses her inner turmoil and longing for love while grappling with the complexities of her feelings and the nature of attraction.

20s · longing · love · identity · rejection

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