No other cause to hate---to envy me---to be jealous of me---eh? 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. You heard him say it was hopeless. Mrs. P.But it may be years yet before it will be paid off, if ever. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. [Reading bill.] George---George---hush---they come! I won't hear a word! Never mind. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. Dat's right, missus! O, law, sir, dat debil Closky, he tore hisself from de gen'lam, knock me down, take my light, and trows it on de turpentine barrels, and de shed's all afire! Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. His love for me will pass away---it shall. my life, my happy life; why has it been so bright? [The knives disappear.] [ExitPeteand all theNegroes,slowly,R.U.E. *Enter*Zoe[supposed to have overheard the last scene], L.U.E. Zoe. Dora. In a word, I have seen and admired you! She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! 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. George. Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! Dora. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. I am free! Dion Boucicault. Why, Dora, what's the matter? I will, quicker than lightning. He will love you---he must. Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? Five hundred dollars!---[*To*Thibodeaux.] M'Closky. Born here! M'Closky. [Shouts heard,R.]. Didn't I? George R R Martin. Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. This New York Times article cautions its readers against jumping to conclusions about Boucicault's intentions in the writing of the play and downplays . Scud. Scud. [Conceals himself.]. [Seizing a fly whisk.] Scud. [Wakes.] Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? What's here? You want to hurt yourself. Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. There's one name on the list of slaves scratched, I see. *EnterPete, Grace, Minnie, Solon, Dido,and all*Niggers,R.U.E. Pete. Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! I won't go on; that man's down. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring George. O! [DrivesChildrenaway; in escaping they tumble against and trip upSolon,who falls with tray; theChildrensteal the bananas and rolls that fall about.]. Scud. Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! O, Zoe, my child! Hee! I---my mother was---no, no---not her! what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. Search him, we may find more evidence. Hillo, darkey, hand me a smash dar. Pete. Hold on yere, George Peyton; you sit down there. What's the law? Paul. I thought none but colored people worked. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. Wahnotee. Now, Jacob M'Closky, you despise me because you think I'm a fool; I despise you because I know you to be a knave. If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. Lynch him! DORA played by a white actress or an actress who can pass as white. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. [Throws down apron.] Save me---save me! M'Closky,Why not? [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. While the proceeds of this sale promises to realize less than the debts upon it, it is my duty to prevent any collusion for the depreciation of the property. Top Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes. You will not give me to that man? Scud. 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? Scud. George. Pete. Scud. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! Hillo! Unlock this Study Guide! Do not weep, George. clar out! No; not you---George. [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. Where are they? Point. Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. Two hundred and forty-nine times! Hillo! Thank ye; thank ye. He wanted to know what furniture she had in her bedroom, the dresses she wore, the people she knew; even his physical desire for her gave way to a deeper yearning, a boundless, aching curiosity. But now that vagrant love is---eh? And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! he does not know, he does not know! George. [Enters house.]. One hundred and forty-nine bales. 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. *] Now, give it to me. Sunny. Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? The eye of the Eternal was on you---the blessed sun in heaven, that, looking down, struck upon this plate the image of the deed. Lynch him! Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. [Pause.] No, I'm the skurriest crittur at a fight you ever see; my legs have been too well brought up to stand and see my body abused; I take good care of myself, I can tell you. Scud. ", Pete. [Going.]. Ratts. Why, because I love Zoe, too, and I couldn't take that young feller from her; and she's jist living on the sight of him, as I saw her do; and they so happy in spite of this yer misery around them, and they reproachin' themselves with not feeling as they ought. [Darts between them.] Scud. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. Ho! Zoe. Zoe. But what do we pay for that possession? he must not see me. Dora. Dora. Sunny. Alas! [Sits. Sunny. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] He has a strange way of showing it. Hooraw! Scud. come home---there are strangers in the house. The Octoroon Act II Summary & Analysis. Will ye? Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. M'Closky. George. Ugh' ach! He said so---then I rose up, and stole from the house, and ran down to the bayou; but its cold, black, silent stream terrified me---drowning must be so horrible a death. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. I hope I'm not intruding. | Privacy Policy A view of the Plantation Terrebonne, in Louisiana.---A branch of the Mississippi is seen winding through the Estate.---A low built, but extensive Planter's Dwelling, surrounded with a veranda, and raised a few feet from the ground, occupies theL. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. If there's a chance of it, there's not a planter round here who wouldn't lend you the whole cash, to keep your name and blood amongst us. 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. Paul. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. 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. Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Hold on! Work, Zoe, is the salt that gives savor to life. Work! I didn't know whether they are completely honest. Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." Dora. Jackson. Zoe. [Re-entering.] Hillo! George. Peyton.] Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! dead---and above him---Ah! Come, Judge, pick up. [R. C.] Pardon me, madam, but do you know these papers? Pete. Ratts. M'Closky. I ain't ashamed of it---I do love the gal; but I ain't jealous of you, because I believe the only sincere feeling about you is your love for Zoe, and it does your heart good to have her image thar; but I believe you put it thar to spile. Why, I was dreaming---curse it! I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. 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! Dam dat Injiun! Nothing; but you must learn what I thought you already knew. Cut, cut the rope---I choke---choke!---Ah! Paul. if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. Ratts. M'Closky. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. Is my plantation at Comptableau worth this? 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. No, sar; but dem vagabonds neber take de 'specable straight road, dey goes by de swamp. 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. Solon. Ah. [Leads her forward---aside.] I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. Scud. Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. Subject to your life interest and an annuity to Zoe, is it not so? Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. What was her past? Salem's looking a kinder hollowed out. Can you take any more? Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. He is sitting on on my prize! [SeesPete,*who has set his pail down*L. C.up stage, and goes to sleep on it.] Scud. Top a bit! I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. When he speaks to one he does it so easy, so gentle; it isn't bar-room style; love lined with drinks, sighs tinged with tobacco---and they say all the women in Paris were in love with him, which I feelIshall be; stop fanning me; what nice boots he wears. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. Mrs. P.Why didn't you mention this before? M'Closky. ], Pete. For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! [Putting it on the table,R. C.]. Point. George. Pete. [Takes them.] [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. I'll take back my bid, Colonel. 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! Zoe. Now's your time.---[Aloud.] Ya!---as he? He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. Ah! And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! [Wahnotee*sits*L.,rolled in blanket.]. Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. Dora. Zoe. He and his apparatus arrived here, took the judge's likeness and his fancy, who made him overseer right off. That they become fads. [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. You made her life too happy, and now these tears will be. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. Pete, speak to the red-skin. See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. Scud. Stan' back, I say I I'll nip the first that lays a finger on Him. O, here, do you know what annuity the old judge left you is worth to-day? You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. [Calls off.] [Draws revolver.] Do you know what that is? The injiun! Paul. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. You gib me rattan, Mas'r Clostry, but I guess you take a berry long stick to Wahnotee; ugh, he make bacon of you. [Indignantly.] George. Look here, you're free, you know nary a master to hurt you now: you will stop here as long as you're a mind to, only don't look so. George. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. Scud. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. Mrs. P.You are out early this morning, George. Then buy the hands along with the property. Ratts. 'Top; you look, you Wahnotee; you see dis rag, eh? 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. [Searching him.] Point. Gustave Flaubert, Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. All Rights Reserved. Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. Go and try it, if you've a mind to. If young George Peyton was to make you the same offer, you'd jump at it, pretty darned quick, I guess. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? Pete. George, do you see that hand you hold? if this is so, she's mine! Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. Glendon Swarthout, Never believe in any faith younger than you are." Pete. 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. what a bright, gay creature she is! [Doraattempts to take it.] Point. thank you. An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Scud. Scud. EnterPete,with lantern, andScudder,with note book,R. Scud. Zoe. here are marks of blood---look thar, red-skin, what's that? I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. She is one-eighth black, the daughter of a "quadroon" slave woman, and is very. M'Closky. faded---is it not? I'll see you round the estate. It's such a long time since I did this sort of thing, and this old machine has got so dirty and stiff, I'm afraid it won't operate. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. Will you hush? Ratts. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. Pete. O, my father! Why should I refer the blame to her? That's his programme---here's a pocket-book. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. [Smiling.] there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. George. Zoe. Sunny. [They rush onM'Closky,and disarm him.] To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. George. No! That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Terrebonne is yours. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. The Octoroon This project is the construction of an annotated, digitized text of the American and British versions of Dion Boucicault's controversial 1859 melodrama of interracial relationships and plantation life in antebellum Louisiana, with an archive of materials on performance for scholarly and pedagogical use. Darn ye! Hold on a bit, I get you de bottle. M'Closky. M'Closky. Point. Hold on a bit. George. Dora. And you killed him? M'Closky. Good day, Mr. Thibodeaux---shall we drive down that way? [Returns to table and drinks.]. O, I have not spoiled that anyhow. I dare say you left at least a dozen beloved women there, at the same time. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. Dis way, gen'l'men; now Solon---Grace---dey's hot and tirsty---sangaree, brandy, rum. Point. Ratts. George. M'Closky. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. Ah! I don't think you capable of anything else than---. That's Solon's wife and children, Judge. It's dem black trash, Mas'r George; dis ere property wants claring; dem's getting too numerous round; when I gets time I'll kill some on 'em, sure! George. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. Ain't he! Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! [They approach again.]. Jackson. M'Closky. [1] O, you wanted evidence---you called for proof---Heaven has answered and convicted you. Say, Mas'r Scudder, s'pose we go in round by de quarters and raise de darkies, den dey cum long wid us, and we 'proach dat ole house like Gin'ral Jackson when he took London out dar. May Heaven bless him for the thought, bless him for the happiness he spread around my life. Ratts. Scud. We can leave this country, and go far away where none can know. Mrs. P.George, I can't spare Paul for an hour or two; he must run over to the landing; the steamer from New Orleans passed up the river last night, and if there's a mail they have thrown it ashore. who has been teasing you? Zoe, must we immolate our lives on her prejudice? His greatest successes however, were on London's stages. Here, you tell it, since you know it. Pete. [C.] I'm sorry to intrude, but the business I came upon will excuse me. ah! Despite the happiness Zoe stands dying and the play ends with her death on the sitting-room couch and George kneeling beside her. [Aside to Pete.] M'Closky. I wish they could sell me! In a few hours that man, my master, will come for me; he has paid my price, and he only consented to let me remain here this one night, because Mrs. Peyton promised to give me up to him to-day. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. Traduced! The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. You love George; you love him dearly; I know it: and you deserve to be loved by him. I've got four plates ready, in case we miss the first shot. I don't know, but I feel it's death! 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. He's going to do an heroic act; don't spile it. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. [George*tries to regain his gun;Wahnoteerefuses to give it up;Paul,quietly takes it from him and remonstrates with him.*]. Scud. Zoe. Scud. Point. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. why were you not my son---you are so like my dear husband. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? Ha, ha!---[Calls.] Ha, ha! Scud. M'Closky. Poor little Paul! Share with your friends. George. "No. Dora. After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. [Kicks pail from underPete,*and lets him down.*]. I want you to buy Terrebonne. Scud. [*Points down, and shows by pantomime how he buried*Paul.]. Fifteen thousand bid for the Octoroon. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! Aunt, when he died, two years ago, I read over those letters of his, and if I didn't cry like a baby---. Aunt, I am prouder and happier to be your nephew and heir to the ruins of Terrebonne, than I would have been to have had half Louisiana without you. Let me relate you the worst cases. Dem debils. that he isn't to go on fooling in his slow---. "No. ], M'Closky. Point. [] 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) Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. Jacob, your accuser is that picter of the crime---let that speak---defend yourself. EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. Mrs. P.No wonder! [On sofa,C.] George---where---where---, Zoe. Well, is he not thus afflicted now? Scud. So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. The Steamer floats on at back, burning. but the deed that freed you was not lawful. 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