Monologue

Toi Monologue from The Imaginary Invalid

From The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

male · comedic · 1:20 min

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I am an itinerant doctor, and go from town to town, from province to province, from kingdom to kingdom, to seek out illustrious material for my abilities; to find patients worthy of my attention, capable of exercising the great and noble secrets which I have discovered in medicine. I disdain to amuse myself with the small rubbish of common diseases, with the trifles of rheumatism, coughs, fevers, vapours, and headaches. I require diseases of importance, such as good non-intermittent fevers with delirium, good scarlet-fevers, good plagues, good confirmed dropsies, good pleurisies with inflammations of the lungs. These are what I like, what I triumph in, and I wish, Sir, that you had all those diseases combined, that you had been given up, despaired of by all the doctors, and at the point of death, so that I might have the pleasure of showing you the excellency of my remedies, and the desire I have of doing you service!

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The character, an itinerant doctor, expresses his disdain for common ailments and reveals his desire for more serious diseases, showcasing his ambition and eccentricity in the pursuit of medical glory.

30s · anticipation · ambition · power · identity · madness

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