Monologue

Vera Monologue

From Vera by Oscar Wilde

female · dark · 52 sec

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I can trust my hand better with the dagger; it never fails. (Take dagger.) I shall stab him to the heart, as he has stabbed me. Traitor, to leave us for a ribbon, a gaud, a bauble, to lie to me every day he came here, to forget us in an hour. (27) Michael was right, he loved me not, nor the people either. (27) Methinks that if I was a mother and bore a man-child I would poison my breast to him, lest he might grow to a traitor or to a king. ((PRINCE PAUL whispers to the PRESIDENT.))

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Vera confronts her feelings of betrayal and rage towards a man who has abandoned her for superficial desires, contemplating violent retribution.

20s · anger · betrayal · revenge · love · identity

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