Monologue

The Statue Monologue from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy

From Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

any · philosophical · 1:12 min

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My dear: I am so much more admired in marble than I ever was in my own person that I have retained the shape the sculptor gave me. He was one of the first men of his day: you must acknowledge that. (ANA: Father! Vanity! personal vanity! from you!) Ah, you outlived that weakness, my daughter: you must be nearly 80 by this time. I was cut off (by an accident) in my 64th year, and am considerably your junior in consequence. Besides, my child, in this place, what our libertine friend here would call the farce of parental wisdom is dropped. Regard me, I beg, as a fellow creature, not as a father. (ANA: You speak as this villain speaks.) Juan is a sound thinker, Ana. A bad fencer, but a sound thinker.

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60 and up · melancholy · identity · family · vanity · philosophy

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