Monologue

Talthybius Monologue from The Trojan Women

From The Trojan Women by Euripides

male · anguished · 1:11 min

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Go, seek Cassandra, men! Make your best speed, That I may leave her with the King, and lead These others to their divers lords. . . . Ha, there! What means that sudden light? Is it the flare Of torches? [Light is seen shining through the crevices of the second hut on the right. He moves towards it. Would they fire their prison rooms, Or how, these dames of Troy?--'Fore God, the dooms Are known, and now they burn themselves and die Rather than sail with us! How savagely In days like these a free neck chafes beneath Its burden! . . . Open! Open quick! Such death Were bliss to them, it may be: but 'twill bring Much wrath, and leave me shamed before the King!

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Talthybius is in a moment of urgency and dread as he witnesses the potential self-destruction of the Trojan women, grappling with his duty to the King and the despair of the captured women.

30s · fear · death · fate · power · isolation

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