Babe Botrelle Monologue

My monologue is written for a female character named Rebecca “Babe” Botrelle, she is a 24-year-old Caucasian female, and the youngest of three children. The socioeconomic status of the character is not mentioned throughout the play; but by using context clues they were pretty comfortable, so upper middle class, since she is the youngest of three children in the 1980s. In the scene, she is speaking to a lawyer about the events that transpired after she shot her husband Zackery. In the adaptation that I viewed, Babe is sitting at a table with the lawyer, the action of the scene has already taken place in the living room where she shot Zackary, her abusive husband, she is trying to explain why she decided to make lemonade before calling the authorities
for help. She was also afraid to call for help because she feared that she would be sent to jail or “the parchment prison farm” for attempted murder. The intention of this monologue was to explain to her lawyer the series of events that transpired after she shot her husband, which took place before the play started, and why she was scared to call for medical help afterwards. She is afraid the making of lemonade will make people think differently of her. The scene continues to play out, and it is discovered that Babe shot Zackery because he threated, and pushed, a young man named Willie Jay down the porch stairs. Willie Jay, is a fifteen-year-old African American boy whom Babe had been having an affair with. After this was discovered, Babe agreed to let the lawyer help her with her case. At the end of the play, the lawyer tells Babe that it is going to be difficult to work with her case due to the photos found of her and Willie Jay together, this will force him to have to settle the case out of court. Zackery’s offer is to have her committed to an institution, this frightens Babe and leads her make two attempts at suicide, one by hanging herself with a rope, and the other by sticking her head in the oven. Her sister catches her the second time and convinces her that Zackery will not be able to make good on his threat of sending her to the institution and the play ends without resolution to many of the of the problems that arouse during the play.