Point. Let me hide them till I teach my heart. "I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live," Zoe says, asking Dido to "protect me from that mando let me die without pain" (70). [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. [Reading bill.] It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. Aunt, when he died, two years ago, I read over those letters of his, and if I didn't cry like a baby---. She has had the education of a lady. Tullian Tchividjian. go on. I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. Scud. All. Scud. All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! Scud. George. [] If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine, you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like." (Act I, Scene 1, Page 24) Work, Zoe, is the salt that gives savor to life. Grace. Eight hundred agin, then---I'll go it. Dora. Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. We tender food to a stranger, not because he is a gentleman, but because he is hungry. Born here---dem darkies? It was that rascal M'Closky---but he got rats, I avow---he killed the boy, Paul, to rob this letter from the mail-bags---the letter from Liverpool you know---he sot fire to the shed---that was how the steamboat got burned up. [Opens it.] if I stop here, I shall hug her right off. M'Closky. Jacobs-Jenkins reframes Boucicault's play using its original characters and plot, speaking much of Boucicault's dialogue, and critiques its portrayal of race using Brechtian devices. Look here; I can't stand that gal! Ratts. Gentlemen, I believe none of us have two feelings about the conduct of that man; but he has the law on his side---we may regret, but we must respect it. Scud. M'Closkyruns off,L.1. [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] Letters! Providence has chosen your executioner. Zoe. No; if you were I'd buy you, if you cost all I'm worth. EnterPete,R.U.E. [he is lame]; he carries a mop and pail. But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. You p'tend to be sorry for Paul, and prize him like dat. O, Zoe! Act II Summary. That's right. [Advances.] If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. Art becomes art only when it's shared with others. Poor child! [Raising his voice.] I say, then, air you honest men? Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. They have realized that Paul is missing, and most believe him dead. Come on, Pete, we shan't reach the house before midday. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. [He is borne off in boat, struggling. [ToMrs. [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! Zoe. That part of it all is performance for the media. A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. You called it yourself; you wanted to make us murder that Injiun; and since we've got our hands in for justice, we'll try it on you. Alas! Zoe. Scud. George R R Martin. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. It's not a painful death, aunty, is it? Important Quotes. 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. is dat him creeping dar? what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? [Rising.] You are illegitimate, but love knows no prejudice. Pete. Have I slept upon the benefits I received, and never saw, never felt, never knew that I was forgetful and ungrateful? [*Gives her coffee-pot to hold, and hobbles off, followed bySolonand*Dido,R.U.E.], Sunny. O, that's it, is it? Peyton.]. Zoe. Stan' back, boys! Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] twit him on his silence and abstraction---I'm sure it's plain enough, for he has not spoken two words to me all the day; then joke round the subject, and at last speak out. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. Stealing a lantern, he sets fire to the steamship that had the slaves on board. Enjoy the best Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes at BrainyQuote. Has not my dear aunt forgotten it---she who had the most right to remember it? yonder goes the Indian! Quotations by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American Playwright, Born December 29, 1984. Scud. But the creditors will not claim the gal? Paul. We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. George. 'Top; you look, you Wahnotee; you see dis rag, eh? Lynch him! "No. Be the first to contribute! faded---is it not? And what shall I say? I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. O! O, Miss Zoe, why you ask ole Dido for dis pizen? Point. [Tableaux.]. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. Scud. That they become fads. O, why did he speak to me at all then? All right, Judge; I thought there was a mistake. The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. Scud. Where am I to get it? Now's your time.---[Aloud.] Dora. dead---and above him---Ah! Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. ha---git out! Fifteen thousand bid for the Octoroon. The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. Pete. D'ye hear that, Jacob? Dora. | About Us He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. Hillo! Zoe. Scud. His love for me will pass away---it shall. He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. Dora. Pete. What court of law would receive such evidence? George. | Sitemap |. Paul. Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! Let me be sold then, that I may free his name. Come, cheer up, old friend. What? If he caught the fever, were stung by a snake, or possessed of any other poisonous or unclean thing, you could pity, tend, love him through it, and for your gentle care he would love you in return. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. Ha, ha!---[Calls.] Here! No, ma'am, I worked like an ass---an honest one, and that's all. George. Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. where am I? ], M'Closky. Paul. Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! [Enters house.]. Don't b'lieve dey'll turn out niggers when dey're growed; dey'll come out sunthin else. Look dar! Dere's a dish of pen-pans---jess taste, Mas'r George---and here's fried bananas; smell 'em, do, sa glosh. Now's your time, sar. What's this? Zoe. And you killed him? Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. See also Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. George. 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. Scud. George. Mr. George is in love with Zoe. For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. "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." [Rising.] How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? It will cost me all I'm worth. 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. The sheriff from New Orleans has taken possession---Terrebonne is in the hands of the law. Away with him---put him down the aft hatch, till we rig his funeral. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. George, dear George, do you love me? Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. But don't mount to nuffin---kin work cannel. An extremely beautiful young slave girl, who is treated like a member of the family, Zoe is kind, generous, and adored by every man who lays eyes on her. Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. Lynch him! One hundred thousand bid for this mag---. | Privacy Policy My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. D'ye call running away from a fellow catching him? [Calling at door.] I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. I hope we don't intrude on the family. ], M'Closky. Salem Scudder, a kind Yankee, was Judge Peyton's business partner; though he wishes he could save Terrebonne, he has no money. When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. George. Ain't that a cure for old age; it kinder lifts the heart up, don't it? Will she gladly see you wedded to the child of her husband's slave? Zoe. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! side.---A table and chairs,R.C. Gracediscovered sitting at breakfast-table with Children. Mr. Scudder, take us with you---Mr. Peyton is so slow, there's no getting him, on. Why not! Mr. Peyton! Ratts. [Raises hand to back of his neck.] Dora. O, dear Zoe, is he in love with anybody? One thousand bid. You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? Dam dat Injiun! Zoe. how sad she looks now she has no resource. George. It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. . Hole yer tongues. M'Closky. Scudder. George. Look! Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. [Looks through camera] O, golly! Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. We work. 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. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone No, you goose! [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] Hold on, now! No, no---life is good for young ting like you. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! My love? how can you say so? hark! I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. Scad. I will, quicker than lightning. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? *Re-enter*Lafouche,R.,with smashed apparatus. That's Solon's wife and children, Judge. Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? the rat's out. Zoe. [Darts between them.] Scud. I heard voices. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. What's here? Scud. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? *, M'Olosky. Yes! Pete. Dora. Ratts. Mr. M'Closky has bid twenty-five thousand dollars for the Octoroon. Come here quite; now quite. [Examines paper.]. here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. George, you know not what you say. Here we are on the selvage of civilization. Pete. [Wahnotee*raises apron and runs off,*L.U.E.Paul*sits for his picture---M'Closkyappears from*R.U.E.]. Job had none of them critters on his plantation, else he'd never ha' stood through so many chapters. 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. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. Point. I hope it will turn out better than most of my notions. Liverpool post mark. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. So it is here, in the wilds of the West, where our hatred of crime is measured by the speed of our executions---where necessity is law! what a bright, gay creature she is! How the flames crack. Well, he has the oddest way of making love. George. Dido. If he would only propose to marry me I would accept him, but he don't know that, and he will go on fooling, in his slow European way, until it is too late. [Aside.] Point. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. But how pale she looks, and she trembles so. I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. [R.] Then why don't you buy it yourself, Colonel? Ya!---as he? Hush! George. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. what will become of her when I am gone? She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. Every word of it, Squire. [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. Scud. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. Lafouche. Ratts. Dora. [Cry of "fire" heard---Engine bells heard---steam whistle noise.]. [Wakes.] That's enough. Are you ready? In some form, human, or wild beast, or ghost, it has tracked me through the night. Zoe. And so you really kept those foolish letters? What say ye? Zoe. He is sitting on on my prize! thank you. [Smiling.] Zoe. 4, the Octoroon girl, Zoe.". Go it, if you're a mind to. [1] Pete. [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. [Scandalized.] Grace. He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. ], Paul. he must not see me. Dora. Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. Who is it? (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. you're looking well. Scud. Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. Dora! So I came here to you; to you, my own dear nurse; to you, who so often hushed me to sleep when I was a child; who dried my eyes and put your little Zoe to rest. Paul. M'Closky. Each word you utter makes my love sink deeper into my heart. Pete. For ten years his letters came every quarter-day, with a remittance and a word of advice in his formal cavalier style; and then a joke in the postscript, that upset the dignity of the foregoing. By fair means I don't think you can get her, and don't you try foul with her, 'cause if you do, Jacob, civilization be darned. Dora. M'Closky. Stop! 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! But dis ain't all. Pete. [Leads her forward---aside.] Zoe. I won't strike him, even with words. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. Sunny. Wahnotee tracks him down and confronts him; in the ensuing struggle, Wahnotee kills McClosky. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. Silence in the court; stand back, let the gentlemen of the jury retire, consult, and return their verdict. if this is so, she's mine! tink anybody wants you to cry? Lift me; so---[George*raises her head*]---let me look at you, that your face may be the last I see of this world. I can go no farther. M'Closky. M'Closky. Is the prisoner guilty, or is he not guilty? Mrs. P. Come, Paul, are you ready? Sunny. [Takes them.] Pete. New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. George. George. Point. Pete. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. See, I'm calm. O, aunt! Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? Wahnotee appears, drunk and sorrowful, and tells them that Paul is buried near them. Do you know what that is? I'ss, Mas'r George. Yes---when I saw him and Miss Zoe galloping through the green sugar crop, and doing ten dollars' worth of damage at every stride, says I, how like his old uncle he do make the dirt fly. It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. Come, Judge, pick up. *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. All night, as I fled through the cane-brake, I heard footsteps behind me. Jacob, your accuser is that picter of the crime---let that speak---defend yourself. Cum yer now---stand round, cause I've got to talk to you darkies---keep dem chil'n quiet---don't make no noise, de missus up dar har us. He and Zoe admit to their love of each other; a heartbroken Dora leaves. Here, you tell it, since you know it. Point. Zoe, explain yourself---your language fills me with shapeless fears. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. Paul. Dido. To-morrow they'll bloom the same---all will be here as now, and I shall be cold. Lafouche. M'Closky. Zoe. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. Scud. You wanted to come to an understanding, and I'm coming thar as quick as I can. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. [Wahnotee*sits*L.,rolled in blanket.]. Alex Tizon, To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. Zoe. The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' [*To*Zoe.] Pete. Hark! Thank'ye. "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". 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. Subject to your life interest and an annuity to Zoe, is it not so? don't think too hardly of your poor father. I daren't move fear to spile myself. Scud. Two hundred and forty-nine times! Scud. George offers to take her to a different country, but Zoe insists that she stay to help Terrebonne; Scudder then appears and suggests that George marry Dora. Pete. have I fixed ye? [*ExitM'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Scud. He will love you---he must. for me---look ye here! if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. His greatest successes however, were on London's stages. [Aside to Pete.] if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. Pete. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. [Looks off.] Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. M'Closky. Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! George still loves Zoe, telling her: "[T]his knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I . This is folly, Dora. Mrs. P.Why didn't you mention this before? With them around us, if we have not wealth, we shall at least have the home that they alone can make---. Mrs. P.And you hesitated from motives of delicacy? Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. Just turn your face a leetle this way---fix your---let's see---look 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." Do you know what I am? What! [Opens desk.] Dora. No! I want you to buy Terrebonne. Jodie Sweetin, Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. Ratts. I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! Well, what d'ye say, Lafouche---d'ye smile? Pete, tell Miss Zoe that we are waiting. Jackson. Why you out in de swamp dis time ob night---you catch de fever sure---you is all wet. they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. This lynch law is a wild and lawless proceeding. Omnes. Don't do nuffin. I wish they could sell me! Dido. Frank Capra, If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. ], Scud. now mind. O, get out. We have known each other but a few days, but to me those days have been worth all the rest of my life. Yes; No. Take that, and defend yourself. He confesses it; the Indian got drunk, quarreled with him, and killed him. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. M'Closky. The more bidders, the better for you. Is my plantation at Comptableau worth this? And twenty thousand bid. [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. look sar! No, sar; nigger nebber cut stick on Terrebonne; dat boy's dead, sure. I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. Hold on, George Peyton---stand back. Good day, Mr. Thibodeaux---shall we drive down that way? And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Sunny. [Points with knife off,R.] D'ye see that tree?---it's called a live oak, and is a native here; beside it grows a creeper; year after year that creeper twines its long arms round and round the tree---sucking the earth dry all about its roots---living on its life---overrunning its branches, until at last the live oak withers and dies out. If he stirs, I'll put a bullet through his skull, mighty quick. Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. M'Closky. No, Pete; no, I won't. Zoe. Whoever said so lied. Now, Mr. George, between the two overseers, you and that good old lady have come to the ground; that is the state of things, just as near as I can fix it. Mrs. P.You are out early this morning, George. [A pause.] Ho! It's soooo dark. Judge, my friend. Will you hush? I can think of nothing but the image that remains face to face with me: so beautiful, so simple, so confiding, that I dare not express the feelings that have grown up so rapidly in my heart. Dora. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. Ratts. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. The men accuse Wahnotee of the murder, and McClosky calls for him to be lynched. That boy and the Indian have gone down to the landing for the post-bags; they'll idle on the way as usual; my mare will take me across the swamp, and before they can reach the shed, I'll have purified them bags---ne'er a letter shall show this mail. But now that vagrant love is---eh? Wahnotee? European, I suppose. [*Seeing*Dora.] Squire Sunnyside, you've got a pretty bit o' land, Squire. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." Point. M'Closky. [Zoe*helps her. Zoe!---she faints! Solon. 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". Zoe, I love you none the less; this knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I can overcome the obstacle. 3, Pete, a house servant. save me! [Pours out.] Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. Weenee Paul. The conflict centers around Zoe, "the Octoroon", a term used at the time to describe a person who was 1/8 African, 7/8 Caucasian. [Sits down.] It ain't no use now; you got to gib it up! [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. It ain't our sile, I believe, rightly; but Nature has said that where the white man sets his foot, the red man and the black man shall up sticks and stand around. George. I'm 'most afraid to take Wahnotee to the shed, there's rum there. No! [*Hands papers to*Mrs. Dido. No---no. [Reads.] Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. Pete. laws a massey! and my master---O! Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. 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