Monologue

Zabina Monologue from Tamburlaine

From Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe

female · anguished · 58 sec

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Then is there left no Mahomet, no God, No fiend, no fortune, nor no hope of end To our infamous, monstrous slaveries. Gape, earth, and let the fiends infernal view A hell as hopeless and as full of fear As are the blasted banks of Erebus, Where shaking ghosts with ever-howling groans Hover about the ugly ferryman, To get a passage to Elysium! Why should we live?--O, wretches, beggars, slaves!-- Why live we, Bajazeth, and build up nests So high within the region of the air, By living long in this oppression, That all the world will see and laugh to scorn The former triumphs of our mightiness In this obscure infernal servitude?

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Zabina expresses her deep anguish and despair over the hopelessness of her and her people's situation, reflecting on their oppression and the futility of their existence.

30s · despair · oppression · freedom · identity · power

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