Gustave Flaubert, Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. Mr. M'Closky has bid twenty-five thousand dollars for the Octoroon. That part of it all is performance for the media. And, strangers, ain't we forgetting there's a lady present. Now fix yourself. Zoe. Why you speak so wild? You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. or say the word, and I'll buy this old barrack, and you shall be mistress of Terrebonne. [Eagerly.] Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? How would you like to rule the house of the richest planter on Atchafalaya---eh? Stand around and let me pass---room thar! I say, I'd like to say summit soft to the old woman; perhaps it wouldn't go well, would it? I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live. Stan' back, I say I I'll nip the first that lays a finger on Him. George. [Seated,R. C.] Fan me, Minnie.---[Aside.] Is not Dora worth any man's---. The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Zoe. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. [Raises hand to back of his neck.] Ha! M'Closky. Scud. Dido. Zoe. I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. I have a restorative here---will you poor it in the glass? D'ye feel it? McClosky desires Zoe for himself, and when she rejects his proposition, he plots to have her sold with the rest of the slaves, for he knows that she is an octoroon and is legally part of the Terrebonne property. Wahnotee. Scud. Look! Dora. M'Closky. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. Is that you, Mr. Overseer? Hillo! Scud. Sunny. Scud. What? have I fixed ye? [*To*Wahnotee.] ], George. Cora, educated in Britain, returns to her fathers plantation in Louisiana to explore the truth about her mother's. Scud. You thought you had cornered me, did ye? Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. Why you out in de swamp dis time ob night---you catch de fever sure---you is all wet. 3, Pete, a house servant. "Judgment, 40,000, 'Thibodeaux against Peyton,'"---surely, that is the judgment under which this estate is now advertised for sale---[takes up paper and examines it]; yes, "Thibodeaux against Peyton, 1838." Well, that has come out clear, ain't it? Zoe, you are pale. Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. George. Essay Topics. What's de charge, Mas'r Scudder? George. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. M'Closky. [*Gives her coffee-pot to hold, and hobbles off, followed bySolonand*Dido,R.U.E.], Sunny. Now, take care what you do. Their presence keeps alive the reproach against me that I ruined them; yet, if this money should come. In cash? [Aside.] George. Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! That's right. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. Paul and Wahnotee arrive back with the mailbags and play around with the camera. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. Lafouche. Zoe. [R. C.] Pardon me, madam, but do you know these papers? Scud. Paul. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. | About Us Do I? Good day, Mr. Thibodeaux---shall we drive down that way? [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. Is your heart free? Well, you wrong me. Zoe. Scud. Pete. Scudder insists that they hold a trial, and the men search for evidence. Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? Dido. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. Ya! Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. How to End "The Octoroon", John A. Degen, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Octoroon&oldid=1114317331, This page was last edited on 5 October 2022, at 22:08. No---in kind---that is, in protection, forbearance, gentleness; in all them goods that show the critters the difference between the Christian and the savage. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. Is there any other bid? "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. Zoe. And twenty thousand bid. You told me it produced a long, long sleep. [DrivesChildrenaway; in escaping they tumble against and trip upSolon,who falls with tray; theChildrensteal the bananas and rolls that fall about.]. whew! Scud. The Injiun means that he buried him there! (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. Go it, if you're a mind to. Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. I feel that I departed amid universal and sincere regret. One thousand bid. how sad she looks now she has no resource. [Knocks.] It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. His greatest successes however, were on London's stages. I'm going to straighten this account clear out. Go now, George---leave me---take her with you. He plans to buy her and make her his mistress. Zoe. Brian Tracy, How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' Tableaux.*. So it is. Your birth---I know it. I hope we don't intrude on the family. O, that's it, is it? That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. George. Sunny. Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Never, aunt! There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. Scud. O, Mas'r Scudder, he didn't cry zackly; both ob his eyes and cheek look like de bad Bayou in low season---so dry dat I cry for him. Despite the happiness Zoe stands dying and the play ends with her death on the sitting-room couch and George kneeling beside her. Where is Mr. Scudder? Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. George and Zoe reveal their love for each other, but Zoe rejects George's marriage proposal. [During the reading of letter he remains nearly motionless under the focus of the camera.] Scud. Peyton.]. Then buy the hands along with the property. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". Zoe. George. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? [Rising.] M'Closky. But don't mount to nuffin---kin work cannel. war's de crowd gone? All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! You don't come here to take life easy. Take your hand down---take it down. Grace. The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. Dora. [Returning with rifle.] [Fire seen,R.]. How long before we start, captain? The Steamer moves off---fire kept up---M'Closky*re-enters,*R.,*swimming on.*. You nasty, lying Injiun! Would you rob me first, and murder me afterwards? 4, the Octoroon girl, Zoe.". No---no. M'Closky. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! How came they in your possession? You heard him say it was hopeless. Take that, and defend yourself. Quotations by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American Playwright, Born December 29, 1984. Just because my grandfather wasn't some broken-down Virginia transplant, or a stingy old Creole, I ain't fit to sit down with the same meat with them. [*Exit*Thibodeaux, Sunnyside, Ratts, Pointdexter, Grace, Jackson, Lafouche, Caillou, Solon,R.U.E. Scud. [C.] I'm sorry to intrude, but the business I came upon will excuse me. Zoe. The men begin to call for McClosky to be lynched, but Scudder convinces them to send him to jail instead. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? Scud. [*Hands papers to*Mrs. Dem debils. Try him, then---try him on the spot of his crime. O! 'Cos I's skeered to try! Mrs. P.Sellyourself, George! *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. 'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. You be darned! O, Miss Zoe, why you ask ole Dido for dis pizen? [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] Point. [Indignantly.] This blow has staggered me some. Scud. Scud. Don't say that, ma'am; don't say that to a man that loves another gal. Glendon Swarthout, Never believe in any faith younger than you are." No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. What's de use of your takin' it kind, and comfortin' de missus heart, if Minnie dere, and Louise, and Marie, and Julie is to spile it? Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. [Reads.] this old Liverpool debt---that may cross me---if it only arrive too late---if it don't come by this mail---Hold on! Weenee Paul. Here then, I'll put back these Peytons in Terrebonne, and they shall know you done it; yes, they'll have you to thank for saving them from ruin. Make an argument for each side of the slavery argument here, analyzing how the play could be read as both anti- and pro-slavery. Missey Zoe! M'Closky. if this is so, she's mine! He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. Death was there beside me, and I dared not take it. [To Jackson.] As I swam down, I thought I heard something in the water, as if pursuing me---one of them darned alligators, I suppose---they swarm hereabout---may they crunch every limb of ye! Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George,---no. What's the law? This lynch law is a wild and lawless proceeding. Were they all born on this estate? Poor little Paul! Hi! Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. Say what you know---not what you heard. Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. that'll save her. When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. Scud. Paul. O, how d'ye do, sir? Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? Is the prisoner guilty, or is he not guilty? Scud. "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Scud. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. | Sitemap |. Darn ye! I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. No, sar; but dem vagabonds neber take de 'specable straight road, dey goes by de swamp. Scud. [Tableaux.]. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. Pete. ZOE played by an octoroon actress, a white actress, a quadroon actress, a biracial actress, a multi-racial actress, or an actress of color who can pass as an octoroon. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. Heaven has denied me children; so all the strings of my heart have grown around and amongst them, like the fibres and roots of an old tree in its native earth. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. Point. [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. Yes, for I'd rather be black than ungrateful! Scud. Zoe (an Octoroon Girl, free, the Natural Child of the late Judge by a Quadroon Slave) Mrs. J. H. Allen. Zoe. Scud. Where are they? I thought none but colored people worked. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Sunny. If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. D'ye hear that, Jacob? She's in love with young Peyton; it made me curse, whar it made you cry, as it does now; I see the tears on your cheeks now. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Pete. yes, plenty of 'em; bill of costs; account with Citizens' Bank---what's this? Let me hide them till I teach my heart. In an act of desperation she drinks a vial of poison, and Scudder enters to deliver the good news that McClosky was proven guilty of murdering Paul and that Terrebonne now belongs to George. O! A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. In some form, human, or wild beast, or ghost, it has tracked me through the night. Stop; this would. Alas! Dido. The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. Scud. Scud. O! O, my---my heart! what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Alas! Dora. Zoe!---she faints! Burn! [Sighing.] [Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. Yonder the boy still lurks with those mail-bags; the devil still keeps him here to tempt me, darn his yellow skin. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. PART ONE: The estate of Terrebonne, in Louisiana, had been heavily mortgaged by the owner, Judge Payton, who, when he died, left the estate to his brother's widow and her son George, making Mrs. Peyton the guardian of Zoe, his natural daughter by a quadroon. The term sensation drama caught on when Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn, adapted from Gerald Grifn's novel The Collegians, became a hit in 1860. [Rises.] I heard voices. Zoe. He is sitting on on my prize! M'Closky. Ratts. Dora. I suppose I shall go before long, and I wished to visit all the places, once again, to see the poor people. You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. No, sir; you have omitted the Octoroon girl, Zoe. [Advances.] We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] No! You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? Sunny. Scud. *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. I ain't no count, sar. I would be alone a little while. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. George is courted by the rich Southern belle heiress Dora Sunnyside, but he finds himself falling in love with Zoe, the daughter of his uncle through one of the slaves. O, how I lapped up her words, like a thirsty bloodhound! *] Whenever I gets into company like yours, I always start with the advantage on my side. Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! Paul's best friend, the Indian Wahnotee, discovers Paul's body; he can speak only poor English, however, and is unable to communicate the tragedy to anyone else. M'Closky. George. Not a bale. 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". My love! Pete Hamill, The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. I hate 'em. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black---bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours---hope like yours---ambition like yours---Life hung with passions like dew-drops on the morning flowers; but the one black drop gives me despair, for I'm an unclean thing---forbidden by the laws---I'm an Octoroon! Ratts. Dora. George. No, no! The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. 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? Tullian Tchividjian. Paul. for me---look ye here! *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. Beat that any of ye. Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. Zoe. Paul. What's dat? Jackson. tink anybody wants you to cry? Dora. We must excuse Scudder, friends. Wahnotee? Is it on such evidence you'd hang a human being? Jackson. Paul. Dora. Jacob McClosky, the man who ruined Judge Peyton, has come to inform George and his aunt (who was bequeathed a life interest in the estate) that their land will be sold and their slaves auctioned off separately. Dora. 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