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Charlotte Corday and Jean Paul Marat are played by patients in the asylum, who are performing a play written by the Marquis de Sade. The play depicts Marat’s murder at the hands of Charlotte Corday, who kills him in his bathtub. This scene shows that murder, as Corday visits Marat for the third time. She is disappointed by the failure of his idealist beliefs, she believes his death will free humankind.
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CORDAY: Marat
I will tell you the names of my heroes
but I am not betraying them
for I am speaking to a dead man
MARAT: (raising himself up)
Speak more clearly
I can’t understand you
Come closer
[...]
MARAT: Bas
Take this down
Saturday the thirteenth of July seventeen hundred and ninety three
A call to the people of France
Peter Weiss. Marat/Sade. Marion Boyars Publishing, 1982. Pp.99-101
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