查尔斯·狄更斯的小说《远大前程》中充满了各种经济阶层令人难忘的人物。乔·加格里是一位铁匠，也是小说主人公皮普的姐夫。皮普的生活从谦卑开始，但由于一些令人惊讶的情况，他从一位神秘的捐助者那里获得了一笔财富。皮普的年轻生活从一个铁匠学徒变成了一个绅士，一个可以在伦敦上流社会里无所事事地度过时间（和金钱）的人。

乔独白的语境

在下面的独白中，乔刚刚在伦敦短暂拜访了皮普。然而，他计划返回农村，因为城市生活及其社会复杂性不适合他。在感人的告别演说中，他表现出强烈的自我意识和对社会期望的理解。虽然这段独白是从实际小说中摘取的，但是《哈利波特》有很多舞台改编​期望值很高。下面的演讲非常适合扮演30出头到50出头年龄段的演员。

乔·加格里的《远大前程》独白

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith. Diwisions among such must come, and must be met as they come. If there's been any fault at all to-day, it's mine. You and me is not two figures to be together in London; nor yet anywheres else but what is private, and beknown, and understood among friends. It ain't that I am proud, but that I want to be right, as you shall never see me no more in these clothes. I'm wrong in these clothes. I'm wrong out of the forge, the kitchen, or off th' meshes. You won't find half so much fault in me if you think of me in my forge dress, with my hammer in my hand, or even my pipe. You won't find half so much fault in me if, supposing as you should ever wish to see me, you come and put your head in at the forge window and see Joe the blacksmith, there, at the old anvil, in the old burnt apron, sticking to the old work. I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!