Yes, I love you---I did not know it until your words showed me what has been in my heart; each of them awoke a new sense, and now I know how unhappy---how very unhappy I am. Dido. I want Pete here a minute. M'Closky. Pete. He loves me---what of that? Go with Dora to Sunnyside. George. M'Closky hates Scudder in return, especially because they both love Zoe, Mr. Peyton's "octoroon" daughter, Zoe. ya! | Contact Us Providence has chosen your executioner. Scud. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? Zoe! top till I get enough of you in one place! If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. Do you know what that is? "No. I must launch my dug-out, and put for the bay, and in a few hours I shall be safe from pursuit on board of one of the coasting schooners that run from Galveston to Matagorda. [Weeping.] Point. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. Then I will go to a parlor house and have them top up a bathtub with French champagne and I will strip and dive into it with a bare-assed blonde and a redhead and an octoroon and the four of us will get completely presoginated and laugh and let long bubbly farts at hell and baptize each other in the name of the Trick, the Prick, and the Piper-Heidsick. Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. Beat that any of ye. You'll take care, I guess, it don't go too cheap. Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. I want you to buy Terrebonne. I won't go on; that man's down. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. You told me it produced a long, long sleep. D'ye feel it? Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. That's enough. EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. A photographic plate. If you would pardon the abruptness of the question, I would ask you, Do you think the sincere devotion of my life to make yours happy would succeed? Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! Lafouche. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. Mrs. P.No wonder! Zoe. Hillo, darkey, hand me a smash dar. Hillo! My home, my home! Scud. Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become. No---no. Be the first to contribute! Zoe. Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. Jackson. Dora. Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. save me! [Aside.] Mr. Peyton! [Pours out.] I won't strike him, even with words. Do you think they would live here on such terms? I felt it---and how she can love! Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Lynch him! ], [Gets in canoe and rows off,L.---Wahnotee*paddles canoe on,*R.---gets out and finds trail---paddles off after him,L.]. Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. You love George; you love him dearly; I know it: and you deserve to be loved by him. Come on, Pete, we shan't reach the house before midday. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] I say---he smoke and smoke, but nebber look out ob de fire; well knowing dem critters, I wait a long time---den he say, "Wahnotee, great chief;" den I say nothing---smoke anoder time---last, rising to go, he turn round at door, and say berry low---O, like a woman's voice, he say, "Omenee Pangeuk,"---dat is, Paul is dead---nebber see him since. Dora. [Laughs.]. Yes; I kept the letters, and squandered the money. Mrs. P.I fear that the property is so involved that the strictest economy will scarcely recover it. When Dion Boucicault's tragedy The Octoroon (set on a southern plantation) opened in December of 1859, many viewed the play as sectional propaganda; there was widespread disagreement, however, concerning the side for which the play argued. 'Top; you look, you Wahnotee; you see dis rag, eh? Pete. We must excuse Scudder, friends. [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] Hark! Sunny. dem darkies! The child---'tis he! Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. Lynch him! then I shall be sold!---sold! Ya!---as he? there's that noise again! This is your own house; we are under your uncle's roof; recollect yourself. What's this? Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? [Knocks.] M'Closky. Important Quotes. Scud. Point. Point. I hope I'm not intruding. What in thunder should I do with you and those devils on board my boat? Author: Mike Watt. What's this, eh? | Privacy Policy I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. Isn't he sweet! I know you'll excuse it. What's he doing; is he asleep? I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. Grace. Sunny. Scud. All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? Seize him, then! Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. [M'Closky*lowers his hand. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. Daisaku Ikeda Culture is like the current of the ocean. *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". Nothing; but you must learn what I thought you already knew. I don't know, but I feel it's death! O, Zoe, my child! Zoe. It's not a painful death, aunty, is it? Pete. It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. war's de crowd gone? When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. I never killed a man in my life---and civilization is so strong in me I guess I couldn't do it---I'd like to, though! You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. Well, is he not thus afflicted now? M'Closky. MINNIE played by an African-American actress, a black actress, or an actress of color. At the time the judge executed those free papers to his infant slave, a judgment stood recorded against him; while that was on record he had no right to make away with his property. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. What's the matter, Ratts? Mrs. P.O, sir, I don't value the place for its price, but for the many happy days I've spent here; that landscape, flat and uninteresting though it may be, is full of charm for me; those poor people, born around me, growing up about my heart, have bounded my view of life; and now to lose that homely scene, lose their black, ungainly faces; O, sir, perhaps you should be as old as I am, to feel as I do, when my past life is torn away from me. Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. Scud. I shan't interfere. [Leads her forward---aside.] Paul. I brought half this ruin on this family, with my all-fired improvements. Art becomes art only when it's shared with others. Born here---dem darkies? O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! Scene 2 is set in the Bayou, where M'Closky is asleep. Scud. Pete. Scudder. he does not know, he does not know! Tableaux.*. Come, Paul, are you ready? Scud. Gentlemen, we are all acquainted with the circumstances of this girl's position, and I feel sure that no one here will oppose the family who desires to redeem the child of our esteemed and noble friend, the late Judge Peyton. Grace. "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". Zoe. Yes; No. Hush! Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroon with everyone. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. Scud. E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. With your New England hypocrisy, you would persuade yourself it was this family alone you cared for; it ain't---you know it ain't---'tis the "Octoroon;" and you love her as I do; and you hate me because I'm your rival---that's where the tears come from, Salem Scudder, if you ever shed any---that's where the shoe pinches. This gal and them children belong to that boy Solon there. I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. [Aside to Pete.] Hugh vieu. O, let all go, but save them! *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. Zoe. Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. ], Scud. Can you take any more? Paul. See also Scud. Wahnotee. Zoe. Sunny. Then, if I sink every dollar I'm worth in her purchase, I'll own that Octoroon. Ha, ha! Thank'ye. The Octoroon was a controversial play on both sides of the slavery debate when it debuted, as both abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates believed the play took the other camp's side. Mrs. P.O, George,---my son, let me call you,---I do not speak for my own sake, nor for the loss of the estate, but for the poor people here; they will be sold, divided, and taken away---they have been born here. The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Octoroon with the earliest record of the word "mashup" with the quote: "He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican." George. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! It's a shame to allow that young cub to run over the Swamps and woods, hunting and fishing his life away instead of hoeing cane. Scud. If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like. Pete. Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. forgive your poor child. I have it. Now don't stir. Mrs. P.No, George; say you wept like a man. Many a night I've laid awake and thought how to pull them through, till I've cried like a child over the sum I couldn't do; and you know how darned hard 'tis to make a Yankee cry. Mrs. Claiborne Miss Clinton. She is one-eighth black, the daughter of a "quadroon" slave woman, and is very. Your own Zoe, that loves you, aunty, so much, so much.---[Gets phial.] Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. Take my shawl, Zoe. George. Fifteen thousand. Hark! There's one name on the list of slaves scratched, I see. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." Mr. George is in love with Zoe. I must see you no more. Zoe. *Re-enter*Lafouche,R.,with smashed apparatus. You made her life too happy, and now these tears will be. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Herein the true melodramatic hijinks that first defined "The Octoroon" ensue: a young, nouveau plantation owner George (Gardner in whiteface) is trying to save the remnants of his family's. dem tings---dem?---getaway [*makes blow at the*Children.] Pete. faded---is it not? Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. dead---and above him---Ah! Silence in the court; stand back, let the gentlemen of the jury retire, consult, and return their verdict. I'ss, Mas'r George. for, darn me, if I can find out. Zoe, they shall not take you from us while I live. Zoe, listen to me, then. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. George. ExitScudderandPete,R.1. I see it in your face. George. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. McClosky intercepts a young slave boy, Paul, who is bringing a mailbag to the house which contains a letter from one of Judge Peyton's old debtors. my life, my happy life; why has it been so bright? George. go on. Well, near on five hundred dollars. Ha! What's here---judgments? The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. Come, then, but if I catch you drinkin', O, laws a mussey, you'll get snakes! that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! George goes to Dora and begins to propose to her; while he is doing so, however, he has a change of heart and decides not to lie to her. Zoe. Ratts. I suppose I shall go before long, and I wished to visit all the places, once again, to see the poor people. My dear husband never kept any accounts, and we scarcely know in what condition the estate really is. [During the reading of letter he remains nearly motionless under the focus of the camera.] [Pete goes down.] The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? Scud. Raits. There is a gulf between us, as wide as your love, as deep as my despair; but, O, tell me, say you will pity me! come home---there are strangers in the house. It makes my blood so hot I feel my heart hiss. 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