Natural Tendency
In Natural Tendency, Romella opens up to her assistant Hammerstead about how she truly feels about her only son Lawrence.
Featured Monologue – Natural Tendency
ROMELLA: Oh Hammerstead, let’s be honest. You are more family than that young man will ever be to me. It’s a sense of duty, my duty, as his mother, to give him what he needs, even though he doesn’t deserve one bit of any of my hard earned money. Am I right?
(Hammerstead nods)
Of course I’m right. There’s nothing of me in him.
Whenever we’d spend time together, I’d catch myself staring at him, trying to find one single thing that I could identify as me. It got to the point where I’d deliberately spend more time with him simply because I was frustrated by the fact that I couldn’t detect one piece of myself in him. And I was determined to, so determined, but I failed.
How does that happen? All that is good and all that is bad within me, doesn’t exist in him, not even a fraction. He’s foreign to me. My only regret is never finding the connection, perhaps if I did, things would have been different. I even tried to influence him, get him to be more like me, who was I kidding, but myself.
I guess we are who we are, no matter who spawns us.
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Monologue Summary
Natural Tendency features a 1-minute dramatic monologue for female actors, wherein Romella turns to her most trusted confidant in order to rationalize her thoughts about the closeness or lack thereof, she has with her son.
- Genre: Drama
- Length: ~1 Minute
- Monologue Character: Romella
- Age Range: Any
- Themes: family
- Best For: short dramatic monologues, free monologues for women
World of the Play
- Cast Size: 1 woman, 1 man
- Characters in Play: Romella, Hammerstead
- Time Period: Modern day
- Synopsis: In this one-act eplay, Romella connects to her assistant Hammerstead about the truth of how she feels in relation to her only son Lawrence. Both Romella and Hammerstead form a deeper bond from their troubled past.
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Monologue Source: Natural Tendency
Natural Tendency, a one-act ePlay by Joseph Arnone, 2025.
