To me, the constancy of an individual’s personality is loosely defined. I operate on various levels; don’t fit me into one picture frame. I’m a multitude of women, and over a thousand reflections. You need only look into the dresser to find me.
I’m currently the perfect college sweater. There’s so much energy, so much team spirit. Everything’s bright and optimistic and I know for sure that whatever I’m rooting for is going to win. The only thing I need is the name of my pride emblazoned over my heart like an emblem.
Sometimes, though, I’m the bright pink skirt with pearl edging. I pair myself with a lot of sugar, and chocolate is a necessity of life. I fight with people over the right to sit in the spinny chair and I draw smiley faces on my friends’ notebooks.
Meanwhile, as everyone knows, these are the clothes they can’t quite wear yet but would love to:
The black dress is a woman who’s very proud of her sexuality, and her power. She doesn’t hesitate to smile with red lipstick, and she always goes with high heels.
Then there’s a dark blue blazer: she’s sleek, friendly and yet professional. She’s sharp enough to focus whenever she chooses, blunt enough to say what she needs to say. There’s a weariness to her but that’s simply the perfume of hard-earned experience.
So with my words and decisions I weave my fabric of existence. My power is the ability of self-definition, and I have no need of a dictionary for that.
The metaphoric use in this monologue is very nice, because it compares a person’s personality with inanimate objects like apparel. This lets you both think about how different inanimate things can represent human traits, and let you grasp a definition of something that can’t necessarily always be defined very easily. But, through the use of personification, this monologue has a really cool effect in how it conveys Annabelle’s personality.
I can’t give much of a comment because you didn’t get to perform it but just from reading it, I think that you did a very good job of representing your personality with feminine items such as dresses, perfume, bright pink shirt, lip sticks, high heels.
Love the metaphors! Clothing is a huge part of personality (for most people), but to put a different meaning to that and actually compare clothing to different stages in a person’s life is great. You also get a glimpse into the goals of the speaker, who not only speaks of her present state but of what she wants to see her future identity become.
As repetitive as this will sound… I really like the metaphor. People often don’t realise how much their clothing represents who they are, or even the mood they are having that particular day. It’s amazing how even a simple shirt can reveal so much about one’s personality. I really wish that you were able to present it.