Monologue

Val Monologue from The Miser

From The Miser by Molière

male · philosophical · 1:12 min

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I do it that I may not vex him, and the better to secure my ends. To resist him boldly would simply spoil everything. There are certain people who are only to be managed by indirect means, temperaments averse from all resistance, restive natures whom truth causes to rear, who always kick when we would lead them on the right road of reason, and who can only be led by a way opposed to that by which you wish them to go. Pretend to comply with his wishes; you are much more likely to succeed in the end, and... (ELI: But this marriage, Valère?) We will find some pretext for breaking it off. (ELI: But what pretext can we find if it is to be concluded to-night?) You must ask to have it delayed, and must feign some illness or other.

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Val is strategizing on how to deal with a difficult character, weighing the merits of indirect manipulation versus direct confrontation.

30s · determination · power · manipulation · identity · ambition

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