Doctor Monologue from The Father

From The Father by August Strindberg

male · dramatic · 1:04 min

From what I gathered during my conversation with him the case is not fully proved to me. In the first place you made a mistake in saying that he had arrived at these astonishing results about other heavenly bodies by means of a microscope. Now that I have learned that it was a spectroscope, he is not only cleared of any suspicion of insanity, but has rendered a great service to science. (LAURA: Yes, but I never said that.) Madam, I made careful notes of our conversation, and I remember that I asked about this very point because I thought I had misunderstood you. One must be very careful in making such accusations when a certificate in lunacy is in question. (LAURA: A certificate in lunacy?) Yes, you must surely know that an insane person loses both civil and family rights.

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