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Practice 5  I SPEAK ALONE; I SPEAK FOR YOU


                                    Ludic and literary environment
               SOCIAL LANGUAGE PRACTICE:   Improvise a short monologue about a matter
                                         of personal interest.
                                               The Great Dictator (1940)
                                               was written, directed
                                               and produced,
                                               by Charlie Chaplin.

            Charles Chaplin’s
            Final Monologue in The Great Dictator
                                                                 TRACK 28

            I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my
            business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should
            like to help everyone, if possible: Jew, Gentile, black man,
            white. We all want to help one another.

            Human beings are like that. We want to live by each
            other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We
            don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this
            world there is room for everyone. And the good earth
            is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life
            can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

                                                                    despise
            Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded          (v.):
                                                                   despreciar
            the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into         greed (n.):
                                                                   codicia
            misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed,
            but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives
            abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge
            has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and
            unkind. We think too much and feel too little.
            More than machinery we need humanity. More
            than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness.
            Without these qualities, life will be violent and
                                                           goose-stepped
            all will be lost…                              bloodsheed
                                                            way (two usages)
                                                            Glossary on
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