Alladine Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

female · anguished · 1:26 min

I cannot help being uneasy when I go back into the palace.... It is so big, and I am so little, and I get lost there still.... And then all those windows on the sea.... You cannot count them.... And the corridors that turn without reason, and others that never turn, but lose themselves between the walls.... And the halls I dare not go into.... (PALOMIDES: We will go in everywhere....) You would think I was not made to dwell there,--that it was not built for me.... Once I lost my way there.... I pushed open thirty doors, before I found the light of day again.... And I could not go out; the last door opened on a pool.... And the vaults that are cold all summer; and the galleries that bend back on themselves endlessly.... There are stairways that lead nowhere and terraces from which nothing can be seen....

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