Bolette Monologue from The Lady from the Sea

From The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

female · contemplative · 1:03 min

Ah, yes! you who yourself are only here for the time being--it is easy for you to make fun of us. (Arnholm: I make fun? How can you think that?) Well, all that about this being a rendezvous, and a terminus for the busy world--that's something you've heard the townsfolk here saying. Yes--they're in the habit of saying that sort of thing. (Arnholm: Well, frankly, I've noticed that, too.) But really there's not an atom of truth in it. Not for us who always live here. What good is it to us that the great strange world comes hither for a time on its way North to see the midnight sun? We ourselves have no part in that; we see nothing of the midnight sun. No! We've got to be good, and live our lives here in our carp pond.

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