Monologue

Clara Monologue from Egmont

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

female · anguished · 1:22 min

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Where? Under the dome of heaven, which has so often seemed to arch itself more gloriously as the noble Egmont passed beneath it. From these windows I have seen them look forth, four or five heads one above the other; at these doors the cowards have stood, bowing and scraping, if he but chanced to look down upon them! Oh, how dear they were to me, when they honoured him. Had he been a tyrant they might have turned with indifference from his fall! But they loved him! O ye hands, so prompt to wave caps in his honour, can ye not grasp a sword? Brackenburg, and we?--do we chide them? These arms that have so often embraced him, what do they for him now? Stratagem has accomplished so much in the world. Thou knowest the ancient castle, every passage, every secret way.--Nothing is impossible,--suggest some plan-- (Brackenburg: That we might go home!) Well.

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20s · longing · honor · power · betrayal · freedom

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