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...