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WANG: Thank goodness you’ve come, Enligh...

The Good Person of Szechuan

Wang The Gods (3)

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Start: WANG: Thank goodness you’ve come, Enlightened Ones! There is a question that has been preoccupying me.

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End: WANG: Just one thing. Couldn’t you at least… THE GODS: Nothing. - We only have observer status. - We firmly believe our good person will make her way on this dark earth. - Her strength will increase with each new burden she takes up. - You will see, water-seller, that everything will turn out…

For full extended monologue, please refer to the script edition cited here: Brecht, Bertolt, The Good Person of Sichuan, Tr. Michael Hofmann, Methuen Drama, 1989, pp. 59-60.

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