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The 2x2 = 5 bit from Notes from Underground might be good, since the Underground Man is openly engaging in a one-sided dialogue with people, it's more comprehensible as a conversation than a lot of the book.

>>9563304
Senior in high school, just turned 18, etc.

>>9563311
fuck off

>>9563301
First Monologue of Segismundo in Life Is a Dream, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

>>9563301
try the one before the main character commits suicide
bring a gun and shoot yourself when you're done
if you are a senior as you claim it'll be a killer senior prank

>>9563317
this

>>9563301
The first 20 pages of Notes is mostly monologue.
Crime and Punishment has one every chapter it seems like
I suggest you don't use Dostoevsky in a highscool drama class though, because you'll look like an edgy weirdo.

>>9563314
its not may 31 yet

>>9563327
>Implying OP is not already a fedora

>>9563335
nah OP doesn't like hats
edgy tho

>>9563308

With the ant-heap the respectable race of ants began and with the
ant-heap they will probably end, which does the greatest credit to
their perseverance and good sense. But man is a frivolous and
incongruous creature, and perhaps, like a chess player, loves the
process of the game, not the end of it. And who knows (there is no
saying with certainty), perhaps the only goal on earth to which mankind
is striving lies in this incessant process of attaining, in other
words, in life itself, and not in the thing to be attained, which must
always be expressed as a formula, as positive as twice two makes four,
and such positiveness is not life, gentlemen, but is the beginning of
death. Anyway, man has always been afraid of this mathematical
certainty, and I am afraid of it now. Granted that man does nothing
but seek that mathematical certainty, he traverses oceans, sacrifices
his life in the quest, but to succeed, really to find it, dreads, I
assure you. He feels that when he has found it there will be nothing
for him to look for. When workmen have finished their work they do at
least receive their pay, they go to the tavern, then they are taken to
the police-station--and there is occupation for a week. But where can
man go? Anyway, one can observe a certain awkwardness about him when
he has attained such objects. He loves the process of attaining, but
does not quite like to have attained, and that, of course, is very
absurd. In fact, man is a comical creature; there seems to be a kind
of jest in it all. But yet mathematical certainty is after all,
something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply a
piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands
with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice
two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we are to give everything
its due, twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.

“I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person, because you never went to college, and you resent education, you resent social ease, you resent good manners, you resent success, you resent any kind of success, you resent God, you resent Christ, you resent thousand-dollar bills, you resent Christmas, by God, you resent happiness, you resent happiness itself, because none of that's real. What is real, then? Nothing's real to you that isn't part of your own past, real life, a swamp of failures, of social, sexual, financial, personal...spiritual failure. Real life. You poor bastard. You don't know what real life is, you've never been near it. All you have is a thousand intellectualized ideas about life. But life? Have you ever measured yourself against anything but your own lousy past? Have you ever faced anything outside yourself? Life! You poor bastard.”

>>9563301
Choose the Devil's monologue from The Brother Karamazov

>>9563382
Wielding a well sharpened edge anon, ready to impress your peers. I'm sure the oral delivery will make it even better (worse).

>>9563392
I'm only 1/5 done with that book unfortunately, if I had gotten to that part already, I would.

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>>9563395
I only posted it because when I read it I can picture some dweeb 'over-acting' when reciting this monologue in class.

Do Alyosha's speech to the boy at the end of TBK.

>>9563414
*boys

>>9563414
This OP, do this.