Bolette Monologue from The Lady from the Sea

From The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

female · contemplative · 53 sec

No, that's my business. Why, I saw to that during the two years father was alone. And so it has been since. (Arnholm: But you're as fond as ever of reading.) Yes, I read all the useful books I can get hold of. One wants to know something about the world. For here we live so completely outside of all that's going on--or almost. (Arnholm: Now don't say that, dear Bolette.) Yes! I think we live very much as the carp down there in the pond. They have the fjord so near them, where the shoals of wild fishes pass in and out. But the poor, tame house-fishes know nothing, and they can take no part in that.

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