Brendel Monologue from Rosmersholm

From Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 54 sec

One or two cast-off ideals? You will be doing a good deed. I am cleaned out, my dear boy, absolutely and entirely. (Rebecca: Did you not succeed in giving your lecture?) No, fair lady. What do you think?--just as I was standing ready to pour out the contents of my horn in plenty, I made the painful discovery that I was bankrupt. (Rebecca: But what of all your unwritten works, then?) For five and twenty years I have been like a miser sitting on his locked money-chest. And then to-day, when I opened it to take out my treasure--there was nothing there! The mills of time had ground it into dust. There was not a blessed thing left of the whole lot.

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