Two Face (Monologue)

This monologue is from a play that I started to write a few months ago. The story was supposed to be told from the point of view of the antagonist. The idea which inspired me to build the whole narrative around the villain was that we all grew up watching movies and listening to stories that had both a hero and a villain. The hero was always this perfect figure without any flaws or vulnerabilities whereas the whole purpose of creating the villain was to write him off as a bad guy. No one ever told the story of the bad guy, no one ever wrote any songs about him nor did anyone ever try to understand his psyche.

Whereas it was always the bad guy who was the most human in the stories, because he was flawed, vulnerable, weak and desperate to control his desires. Just like us. The most relatable character in those tales is not the one who gets to ride into the sunset at the end but the one who gets buried under it.

The excerpt thats about to follow this prelude was supposed to be the final monologue of my villain at the end of the play before the curtain dropped in which he talks about the world's biggest betrayals and man's biggest vulnerabilities. It was supposed to establish him as not the bad guy but the lost traveller who took the wrong road. It was supposed to be his swan song.

Monologue:

When Judas kissed the rabbi,

Did he not know that christianity would spit of his being for posterity because he sold out Joshua for thirty pieces of silver.

When Brutus pressed his blade and before the words "Et tu Brutus" were first heard,

Did he not know that the demise of Julius would neither bring back the great library of Alexandria from the ashes nor his nobility.

When the blood of Duncan started to fade,

Did King Macbeth not realise that there were not three but four witches who forced his hand corrupting the mind of once a brave general.

We all are troubled men.

Easily corrupted and wretched in our own way.

Misguided fools drowning in the depths of their own pride.

The only difference between us being the gravity of our betrayals.