Friday, 26 September 2014

Start of a Dramatic monologue with an unreliable narrator

Lilly looks up to the stars, gazing through the open window.She contemplates her deepest thoughts,she is sat slouching on the window ledge.


Its a cage,bars with gaps to narrow for me to seep through.
My life is out there not in here. I'm trapped.
They say 'unfortunately you'll have to stay in a few more weeks'.
They haven't found anything, i can tell.
The nurse make their snide comments as they walk away.
'She's an attention seeker' 'A liar!',
The doctors tell me its a 'figment of my imagination',
I know somethings wrong, it is, it is, it must be.

We class people as normal, but what is normality, who is normal, what is all the people considered normal, are all people with lots of similarities normal?, how do we class these people.
My mother and Father visit, on special occasion.
NONE of them believe my illness(tone of voice changes)

You see to me its simple, my mind tells me things,nasty things, i try so very hard to ignore them but they linger, and cloud my judgements and decisions.

1 comment:

  1. Some lovely lexical choices here e.g. the metaphorical use of "seep". A good, theatrical rhythm that creates a strong voice. Proofreading needed as some slips make what you are saying difficult to follow. Use all the conventions e.g. title needed.

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