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Shen Te and Mrs Shin are packing up the contents of the tobacco shop, which Shen Te has just sold to try to earn money for her love, Yang Sun, to travel to Peking for a job. She belatedly learned that Yang Sun does not love her, and has no intention of marrying her, and Mrs Shin remarks that she now has no job, no home and no man. As they work, Shen Te begins to feel ill, and Mrs Shin speculates that her lost lover has left her pregnant. Realizing this is true, Shen Te begins to imagine what
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Start: MRS SHIN: You see, now you’ve lost your shop, and everybody knows your airman is drinking away the money in the lowest bars. It’s all gone. No man, no tobacco, no place to live. That’s what you get for wanting to be a cut above the rest of us. Now what are you going to live off of?
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End: SHEN TE: Yes, from this hour, When I have seen this, I will cut myself off From everyone and not rest Until I have saved my own son, at least! All I have learned in the gutter, The viciousness and the deceit, will be For you. Son, I will Be good to you, and to all others be a tigress And a wild beast, if I must. And I must.
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. 61-65.
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