Example of a Messenger’s Speech in Greek Theatre Essay Example

I arrive with tragic news from the hospital. I will tell all that I saw, no lies or cover-ups. I followed my master, the Hospital Administrator, To the ward of detainment. Where the women, with their heads drooped, Newborns starving in their arms The smell of death, all around, The odor of vomit, splattered on the floor, Like the blood of maiden Monica, Was soon to be. Suddenly we heard a piercing scream, A sound that raised the hairs on the back of my neck,

The sound that can only be the cry, Of a woman who has seen death for the first time. We ran to the end of the dorm, As fast as we could run, And there we saw a sight, That can never be unseen. Monica, the new mother, was a foot above the ground, Her lifeles