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And this is my wedding day. There goes t...

Overview

Character
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Three, Scene Two
Time & Place
The monologue takes place outdoors on a historic estate in rural Ireland during a tumultuous morning in the 1790s.
Length
Short
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

Context

Text

And this is my wedding day. There goes the only man I ever loved. When he’s here near by me, I could give him the worst treatment a man could desire, and when he goes away he takes the heart and all of me off with him, and I feel like an unfurnished house. This is pretty feelings for a girl to have, and she in her regimentals. Oh! if he wasn’t married—but he is, and he’d have married me as well—the malignant! Oh! if he had, how I’d have made him swing for it—it would have afforded me the happiest moment of my life.

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