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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
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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
pages 91-94

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