Cordelia Monologue

When I went to pick her up from the floor, her skin felt cold as ice and had the same color as freshly fallen snow. Is thy really gone? Did this bastard really kill my poor daughter? I shake her from thy shoulders once and then twice and then ten more times and I shall continue shaking until she wakes up from this never-ending slumber she has been placed in. All I want is to hear her gentle voice one last time, only once more. Such a cruel ending for such a sweet maiden, so unjust to end a life that still had plenty of years ahead of it. Had it been my life instead I’d have no issue, hence, I am finally aware of all my time catching up to me. Too long have I been a plague to this world and too long have I been denying it.

Removing the hair from Cordelia’s face, my eyes caught a glimpse of something so vile it would be a sin to even speak of. T’was the disgusting excuse of a man who had ended my daughter’s young life. My own two hands made sure to never allow another huff of breath to exit this rotten man’s lungs. This piece of scum has deprived me of a happy and rich life with my Cordelia. Just when everything was going to be right again, just when I had gotten her back! Why must all good things last so little? I was a fool, warned by my fool, but I was too worried about the wrong things.
My pride has always been ruining my life and others' lives. Could all this have been avoided if I just listened to everyone around me? Why did my poor, innocent daughter have to deal with my childish and selfish decisions? I hope Cordelia will be able to forgive me despite all I had her go through. She always had a great heart, I’m surprised we even share the same blood. If only her plague-sore sisters could have been as good and as gentle as her. Oh, how my heart aches, the things I would do to just see life rush back into her