I'm looking for a good dramatic Monologue. Suggestions?

Question

Specifically one where the speaker has a terminal illness, and has an angry attitude. Or where the speaker has a racist attitude. (The play I'm trying out for has characters in it mostly like that, it deals alot with racial tension)

Kind of a weird suggestion for a monologue, but yeah can you help me out please?

Answer 1

He doesn't have a terminal illness, but Hamlet had plenty of attitude!

Try his farewell speech in Act 5, where he knows he's dying.

Answer 2

Stanley (Marlon Brando) in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Very dramatic and angry.

Answer 3

Ask a librarian!

Answer 4

Dang it! Mine doesn't have a terminal illness, I write monologues...

Answer 5

Here's a weird answer! Try the 'lyrics' to "Gila Copter" by this freaky band RevCo. It's actually a spoken-word piece by William Boroughs, with some freaky music and sound fx in the background. It's short, but it's definitely angry, and you could go racist with it. I imagine it as a speech to a crowd. Have fun with whatever you choose!

"Gila Copter"

Hey kids!

You want a soundtrack that's gonna make you feel tense? Let you express your frustration? Make ya scared, wanna-- wanna run out and buy a gun? You're looking for another rock'n'roll record that'll make you feel like a victim! You're like a victim-- you _love_ to be a victim! You love the— United-States-prime-time-victim-show! Hey: bells! gila copters! machine guns! Listen to that! Listen to that! Kill for Allah! Kill for Jesus!

1980's sh*t!

Turn it down. Tone it down...

Hey! Listen to me! All that 1980s sh*t is over! Brothers and sisters-- we'll turn the volume down. Brothers and sisters-- we're gonna-- we're gonna  _shut down_ this mechanical stuff, that makes us feel like victims! Take those machine guns, and turn 'em down...

Yeah.

Turn off those cop shows.

Listen to those gila copters! Listen to the sirens!

Makin' you feel nervous... and angry.

1980s sh*t... turn it down. Tone it down.

(Pause)

Now I ask you. I ask you in quiet tone of voice. Is the gila copter... a machine of _pleasure_? Is the gila copter... a  _love_ machine?

Turrrn it off.

Silence those church bells.

F*ck the sirens!

Lets have some quiet, quiet silence. Yeah...Yeah.

I wanna hold you close. You wanna hold  _someone_ close. Hey. We wanna-- we wanna feel  _good!_ I wanna make you laugh. Turn down that victim sh*t.

Oh.

Yeah. Yeah thats better.

Hey-- we wanna look each other in the eye. We wanna high-five. We wanna whisper-- we wanna whisper sweet things in our ear.

I wanna tremble your earbulb.

Open your trembling earbulb.

(Whisper) Listen.

(Pause)

(Yelling) Turn that gila copter off baby! We will not be angry victoms no more! We're gonna-- we're gonna say yeah! Turn it off! Turn it off! Turn that gila copter down, baby!

(Calmly) We're gonna say yeah. We're gonna say yeah. We're gonna say yeah. We're gonna make it all... work out. We're gonna have... a moment of silence now.

(Soothingly) Turn down the machines. Turn down the gila copter. Turn down the prime time. Shut those guns down.

Yeah.

Yeah...

Isn't that better?