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| Character | Woman | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50), Senior (>50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Persuasive, Inspirational | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 1901 | |
| Period | 20th Century | |
| Genre | Drama, War | |
| Description | The Woman persuades the Man to allow her to join the revolution | |
| Location | One act play | |
Summary
The play is set in Russia during the revolution. A Woman stands in front of the window in a modest home. Sounds of hammers and axes are coming from outside as people build barricades. The Man enters the room and the two discuss the fact that the revolution has started.
In this monologue the Woman describes how the sounds of axes and hammers make her feel like she is seventeen and that she has fallen in love for the first time. Those sounds represent freedom and she has decided to fight and die for it.
In this monologue the Woman describes how the sounds of axes and hammers make her feel like she is seventeen and that she has fallen in love for the first time. Those sounds represent freedom and she has decided to fight and die for it.
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| WOMAN: "Something like this happens once in what a hundred years? A thousand? Do you really expect me to stay here and change diapers? Yes! I want to come with you! [Pause.] Dont be angry. Please. But tonight when the sounds began when the hammers and the axes began to fall you were still asleep and I suddenly understood that my husband, my children all these things are temporary.... I love you very much [She clasps his hand.] but cant you hear how they are hammering out there?! They are pounding away, and something seems to be falling, breaking apart, some kind of wall seems to be coming down the earth is changing and it is so spacious and wide and free! Its night now, but it seems to me the sun is shining! Im thirty years old and already Im like an old woman, I know it, you can see it in my face. And yet tonight I feel like Im only seventeen, and that Ive fallen in love for the first time a great, boundless love that lights up the sky! Theyre pounding, and it sounds to me like music, like singing of which Ive always dreamt all my life and I didnt know who it was that I loved with such a boundless love, which made me feel like crying and laughing and singing! This is freedom! Dont deny me my place let me die with those who are working out there, who are calling in the future so bravely and rousing the dead past from its grave! |
