The Bluestocking 2023-24

Fiona Shen Grade 12 Mother, mother!

Character: Macduff’s Son Current Event: School Shooting

The context and purpose of your soliloquy/monologue: Macduff’s son has already been slain but his ghost form experiences a school shooting.

Mother, mother! I’ve become as free as a bird!

“As birds do,” I’ve found my flock (4.2.36), They remind me of my innocent childhood days, The laughter that once filled our hallways, All severed with a stab and a thud, Now those hallways are stained with our blood.

Have our deaths gone in vain? Or were they simply a source of endless pain?

Mother, mother! We all suffer the same fate! Gunshot ringing. Nowhere to flee. Panic ridden eyes and head tucked in knees. A daughter, a son, a beloved one, the likes of me, Their lives cut short. The ultimate cost. But at what cost will the senseless assaults exhaust? How many more must die before violence is tossed?

Mother, mother! I was right!

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