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  • A Monologue from the play "Henry VI Part 1" by William Shakespeare
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CharacterJoan La Pucelle
GenderFemale
Age Range(s)Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35)
Type of monologue / Character isPersuasive, Reminiscing life story/Telling a story
TypeDramatic
PeriodRenaissance
GenreHistorical, Drama
DescriptionJoan of Arc persuades Burgundy to fight for the French
DetailsACT 3 Scene 3

Summary

The setting is the Hundred Years' War. The English, let by general Talbot, are fighting the French, led by Joan of Arc and King Charles. In this scene the French have just lost the city of Rouen to the English.

Joan of Arc has the idea to try to persuade Burgundy, a French lord fighting with the English, to abandon Talbot and return to the French side.

In this monologue Joan of Arc asks Burgundy to listen to her and see the destruction that the English have brought to his country to which he has contributed by helping the enemy. She argues that the English are just using him after all and urges him to stop fighting his countryman and return to the French side.

Written by Administrator

Excerpt
JOAN LA PUCELLE
Look on thy country, look on fertile France,
And see the cities and the towns defaced
By wasting ruin of the cruel foe.
As looks the mother on her lowly babe
When death doth close his tender dying eyes,
See, see the pining malady of France;
Behold the wounds, the most unnatural wounds,
Which thou thyself hast given her woful breast.
O, turn thy edged sword another way;
Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those that help.
One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom
Should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore:
Return thee therefore with a flood of tears,
And wash away thy country's stained spots.

BURGUNDY
Either she hath bewitch'd me with her words,
Or nature makes me suddenly relent.

JOAN LA PUCELLE
Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee,
Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny.
Who joint'st thou with but with a lordly nation
That will not trust thee but for profit's sake?
When Talbot hath set footing once in France
And fashion'd thee that instrument of ill,
Who then but English Henry will be lord
And thou be thrust out like a fugitive?
Call we to mind, and mark but this for proof,
Was not the Duke of Orleans thy foe?
And was he not in England prisoner?
But when they heard he was thine enemy,
They set him free without his ransom paid,
In spite of Burgundy and all his friends.
See, then, thou fight'st against thy countrymen
And joint'st with them will be thy slaughtermen.
Come, come, return; return, thou wandering lord:
Charles and the rest will take thee in their arms.

Comments

Administrator

The tone of the monologue is persuasive as Joan of Arc tries to convince Burgundy to join her in her battle against Talbot.

There is an intercut when Burgundy comments on how Joan La Pucelle has "bewitched" him with her words that can be ignored and doesn't break the flow of the monologue.

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