Hey! I have to write and act out a monologue piece for English, and this is what I came up with. Reviews and criticism would be much appreciated!

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Character Notes:

In November nineteen seventy-five at the age of twenty, Verity Taylor was charged by the police with the damage of a chair by fire, value six pounds, in a locked ward of a mental hospital where she was a patient. She was remanded in custody to Holloway Prison for a period of three months. She was subsequently tried at Canterbury Crown Court and in February nineteen seventy-six an order was made for her admission to a maximum security hospital. On February the twenty-fourth, nineteen seventy-six, Verity Taylor was admitted to Broadmoor from where she may not be transferred elsewhere without the permission of the Home Secretary.

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(Snooty voice) All right Verity. That’s enough. (normal) Stupid Sister Moses. It’s her fault I’m in here. (deep voice) Now now, Verity, don’t be mad, Broadmoor will be safe for you. (normal) Safe, huh Dad? Locked in a room with bars on the window, and a metal bloody door? Welcome to Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Yep, that’s me. Criminally insane, apparently. Just for setting Moses’ chair on fire. It was her fault! She deserved it, the old cow, I wasn’t doing any harm in the day room. And now I’ve been shoved in with people like Lizzie Borden. Oh, you haven’t heard about her? New England, August 1892, murdered her father and step-mother. I’ve been put in with the flippin’ murderers! I’m not a murderer! I’ve never killed anyone! [pause This isn’t right. (shakes head) I shouldn’t be in here...I should be out there, with friends, at school... (stands up) okay, so I’m different from everyone else. I have a temper – doesn’t everyone? So I...express my anger more than most.

In class? I was the smart one. Sure, I was quiet, reserved. Never played with the rest of the kids. But I always helped the teachers. Always answered when asked a question, always gave the correct answer. And this is what I get.

Was it because of that time I told that old couple, Ted and Dora that I had been raped when I was 16? Because, that was ages ago, when I was in the ward, H twenty-two. I didn’t have Sister Moses back then. Sure, I was in the same building – but she was in the real bad section.

(shifts closer) You don’t think I’m crazy, do you?