French Lieutenant's Woman Monologue
| The French Lieutenant's Woman by Harold Pinter | |
| Character: | Sarah |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age (range): | 18 - 55 |
| Style: | Drama |
| Length: | 2 minutes |
Looking for a published monologue? Want to know
character history & story background? We have exactly what you
need! Join Our Community
today and gain access to dozens of monologues for auditions,
classes, competitions, workshops, and more! Click
To See What The Buzz Is About... |
|
Sarah: You cannot understand because you are not a woman. You are not a woman born to be a farmer's wife but educated to be something better. You were not born a woman with a love of beauty, intelligence, learning, but who's position in the world forbids her to share that love with another......You are not the daughter of a bankrupt. You have not spent your life in penury. You are not condemned. You are not an outcast.
I gave myself to the French Lieutenant so that I should never be the same again, so that I should be seen for the outcast I am. I knew it was ordained that I could never marry an equal. So I married shame. It is my shame that has kept me alive, my knowing that I am truly not like other women. I shall never like them have children, a husband, the pleasures of a home. Sometimes I pity them. I have a freedom they cannot know. No insult, no blame can touch me. I have myself gone beyond the pale. I am nothing. I am hardly human anymore. I am the French Lieutenant' s Whore.
