It wasn’t even this crowded the day my mother sold me for a bronze kettle. "Hurry‚ Schalane! The train is about to start!" cries Erik. Struggling to find his face through the sea of bobbing heads separating us‚ I falter for a moment. A wisp of his charcoal brown hair vanishes in the hurling throng. The thirty people behind me shuffle with impatience‚ dark scowls painted upon their faces. I should step back and let them ahead of me. That’s what a caring person would do. In my experience‚ however
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Screams echoed throughout the courtyard. Shrieks of pain drowned under an ocean of slaughter. It was a massacre‚ he said. A grizzled man stood silent amidst the song of clashing swords. Enamelled in black armour‚ a crimson velvet cape draped across his back swished silently in the wind. Clutching his bloodstained golden gilded broadsword firmly in his hand‚ he was. Friends and foe alike could see the gallant knight standing gloriously over his fallen victims. Without any warning‚ a blood-curling
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The weeds grew tall in the front garden of 6 Beach Hut Cottages. Clemmie picked her way with care along the rutted path as she didn’t want to trip and fall. After all‚ she would be no use with a sprained ankle‚ or worse still‚ a broken nose. When she reached the front step‚ she put her ear to the door. For a while‚ she listened for the clatter of pots and pans‚ a strident voice‚ or even a kettle whistle boil. But apart from the resounding thuds deep in her chest‚ there was no other sound. In fact
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Alice wrote furiously across her sheet‚ steam practically blew off where her pencil made contact with her paper. She had so much to say‚ yet so little time and space. As Alice set down her pencil‚ showing an air of being done‚ she looked around the classroom. Other students looked confused‚ as if the advanced algebraic equations were hard. Why were they so confused? She peered at the posters‚ all of which were covered with tacky math jokes‚ like‚ Pass your test‚ or be a ! She tried looked at her
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Don’t blame anyone. You brought this onto yourself. - What does that mean? - Don’t tell people you know me. I never want to see you again. But I hope one day you can forgive me. I’ve already forgiven you. I don’t want you anymore. Stay out of my life. Let’s go. Let’s go! Come on! Don’t just stand there! Zweli! - Open up! - Wait! Zweli! Zweli Maphumulo! No‚ no‚ no! Goodness! - What’s wrong? - Where’s my baby? Mumsy‚ you don’t greet‚ and then you ask me that? Smangele‚ I need to speak
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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
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Lady Macbeth Mad Monologue What knowledge is there now that I can be innocent of? Innocent‚ the eyes of one who sees the corpse of a King‚ smoothly hacked at like a piece of meat by a well-practiced butcher‚ knowing that it was those eyes‚ my eyes‚ that watched the traitorous act come to pass. How can these little hands ever be clean of guilt‚ when they are covered in the blood they smothered‚ still warm‚ upon the sleeping innocents. I held the very dagger that slashed life to shreds‚ daggers
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Why? Why does this have to happen to me? I‚ Oedipus‚ King of Thebes‚ did nothing to deserve this cruelty. I.. I who saved Thebes from the Sphynx’s evil riddles; I… who led the country… and now this? Such a wicked life I have. Now‚ Jocasta‚ my beloved wife; no‚ my MOTHER‚ gave her last breath when faced to this truth. Her body now lies here in her chambers and all I can do is lament. What an incestuous act we have done. My mother… and I… our children… Oh gods. OH GODS! Please forgive me! I never
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Drama Scene: Character is sitting at a desk‚ leaning back on the chair he is sitting in‚ tapping his finger against his leg in a fast rhythm. There are multiple chalkboards with markings that indicate counting‚ with various amounts of lines on the boards. On the desk is an iPad. ’Three knocks are heard’ ’Character counts to five on his fingers’ "Come in" ’A few seconds pause’ "Oh‚ you must be the new psychologist they’ve been talking about. Of course I can hear them‚ the walls are so thin
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The Castle Madison Blenheim (Tony approaches Dale Kerrigan about his mothers’ passing out in front of Tony’s house). Tony - Yeah mate‚ last Thursday me mum passed away. I drove up to the hospital in ‘old betsie’ for me usual afternoon visit after a cracker of a day at work‚ only to find out the angels had taken her. Those nurse ladies told me it was just her time‚ but I don’t understand aye‚ she was such a trooper through the whole thing from diagnosis‚ right throughout chemo‚ the lot.
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