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Wellwyn Monologue from The Pigeon

From The Pigeon by John Galsworthy

male · contemplative · 56 sec

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But, look here, Ann, the whole thing's so jolly complicated. According to Calway, we're to give the State all we can spare, to make the undeserving deserving. He's a Professor; he ought to know. But old Hoxton's always dinning it into me that we ought to support private organisations for helping the deserving, and damn the undeserving. Well, that's just the opposite. And he's a J.P. Tremendous experience. And the Vicar seems to be for a little bit of both. Well, what the devil----? My trouble is, whichever I'm with, he always converts me. (Ruefully.) And there's no fun in any of them.

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Wellwyn grapples with conflicting ideologies about social responsibility and the nature of deservingness, feeling overwhelmed by the differing opinions of those around him.

30s · confusion · identity · power · social justice · conflict

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