What Are a Few Good Dramatic Monologue?

What is a very good dramatic monologue?

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  The Rich Man and the Poor Man "Food and money I give to you, Why do you shout so mercily When I give you your part?" queried the rich man. The poor man replied: "Your question you cannot answer For from pain and agony you are free, But I have suffered and borne The situation that I don't like to be in." "That I couldn't understand Because Life for me is easy; I take this and take that, And life is just what I want it to be." consented the rich man. "Comfort your mind, rich man, with realities of death. Your wealth I do not envy For you can not buy eternity with money. If to live happily is to live in hypocrisy, Then I prefer to be silly so I would be holy. Life you love so much you will lose And only then will you understand What agony is," the poor man shouted. "Ha! Ha! Ha! You say so For you desire this place of mine. Indulgence you have clouded with reason But I understand because of your situation." boastfully the rich man said. Outraged the poor man answered: "How pitiful the person blinded with pleasure; No, you don't care of our journey That you have created through your greediness. Come now, man of weak soul! Your days are numbered for you to face The Man of Love. You may not cry now but later you will When the chilling reality of the last judgment Comes across your way; Yes, then you will pity, but not for me. Not for anybody else. But for yourself only! Yes, eat, drink, and be merry. For tomorrow you shall die! Our Town written by Thornton Wilder Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's dead, too. His appendix burst on a camping trip to North Conway. We felt just terrible about it - don't you remember? But, just for a moment now we're all together. Mama, just for a moment we're happy. Let's really look at one another!...I can't. I can't go on.It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back -- up the hill -- to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-bye , Good-bye world. Good-bye, Grover's Corners....Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking....and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths....and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth,you are too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every,every minute? Stage Manager: No. (pause) The saints and poets, maybe they do some. Emily: I'm ready to go back. While You Were Sleeping written by Fred Lebow & Daniel Sullivan Lucy: Um...do you rememer that day at the hospital? Of course you remeber that day at the hospital. Well, um, there was a little mix-up. Um, I saw Peter get pushed onto the tracks and, uh, I saved his life, but when I got to the hospital, they wouldn't let me see him, so, um, the -someone told the doctor that I was his fiance. Only, um...its not true. I was never engaged to Peter. Jack Callaghan (Bill Pullman): Why didn't you say something? Lucy: Because I didn't know how to tell you. We never even met until that day on the tracks and um, its just when we were in the hospital room, everything happened so fast and I couldn't tell you the truth, and then I didn't want to tell you the truth because, um, the truth was that I fell in love with you. Ox (Peter Boyle): You fell in love with me? Lucy: (laughing) No. No, yes. All of you. I went from being all alone to being a fiance, a daughter, a granddaughter, a sister and a friend. I might have saved your life on the tracks that day, but you know what? You really saved mine. You allowed me to be part of your family, and I haven't had that in a really long time, and I just didn't want to let go of that. So even though it was just for a little while, I will love them always. I'm very sorry.