To Kill A Mockingbird Monologue Essay
English To Kill A Mockingbird Monologue - Draft
[Mayella Ewell is in the living room of the Ewell house alone. She has arrived home after Tom Robinson’s trial at the courthouse ended. She slowly paces around the room still dresses in the clothes she was wearing during the trial.]
Oh, what have I done? [Mayella comes to a stop, gripping onto her wrist tightly] I know that lying on that stand was necessary to protect my reputation in this society; I know it would’ve shamed my family’s name to admit that I kissed a negro man, even more so to speak of the horrors that my drunk father has bestowed upon me. Maybe I should have risked it anyway…but now the deed is done. [Mayella picks up her hat that she wore to the trail and holds it in her hand] Tom is in jail; his family’s hope trickling away more and more every minute. I shouldn’t …show more content…
I thought if never kissed a grown man before, why would’ve it mattered that it was Tom? Oh, how wrong was I! My father educated me about the dirty people that they were, that those black people only bring trouble. How this is what it really should be like in society, with us superior whites up top and those blacks beneath us. I didn’t really take heed of what he spoke of, my own desires more truthful in my mind.[Mayella clenched her fists angrily] I should’ve listened. I would never have had to go out of my way to hide what I did if he were white; my father would never have been so filled with rage when he spotted us. Now I have to deal with this. This guilt. These bruises. I already have to deal with so much. Tom was too nice a man, so nice as to constantly help someone without a single nickel as repayment. I knew it was a dangerous move kissing him as I did… but it was all too tempting to kiss Tom Robinson, a black man. For the first time in my life I satisfied my loneliness and had power. It was wonderful for a moment, until it all came crashing
[Mayella Ewell is in the living room of the Ewell house alone. She has arrived home after Tom Robinson’s trial at the courthouse ended. She slowly paces around the room still dresses in the clothes she was wearing during the trial.]
Oh, what have I done? [Mayella comes to a stop, gripping onto her wrist tightly] I know that lying on that stand was necessary to protect my reputation in this society; I know it would’ve shamed my family’s name to admit that I kissed a negro man, even more so to speak of the horrors that my drunk father has bestowed upon me. Maybe I should have risked it anyway…but now the deed is done. [Mayella picks up her hat that she wore to the trail and holds it in her hand] Tom is in jail; his family’s hope trickling away more and more every minute. I shouldn’t …show more content…
I thought if never kissed a grown man before, why would’ve it mattered that it was Tom? Oh, how wrong was I! My father educated me about the dirty people that they were, that those black people only bring trouble. How this is what it really should be like in society, with us superior whites up top and those blacks beneath us. I didn’t really take heed of what he spoke of, my own desires more truthful in my mind.[Mayella clenched her fists angrily] I should’ve listened. I would never have had to go out of my way to hide what I did if he were white; my father would never have been so filled with rage when he spotted us. Now I have to deal with this. This guilt. These bruises. I already have to deal with so much. Tom was too nice a man, so nice as to constantly help someone without a single nickel as repayment. I knew it was a dangerous move kissing him as I did… but it was all too tempting to kiss Tom Robinson, a black man. For the first time in my life I satisfied my loneliness and had power. It was wonderful for a moment, until it all came crashing