Egmont Monologue

From Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male · defiant · 1:01 min

Your words, alas, justify the fears of the people, the universal fear! The king has then resolved as no sovereign ought to resolve. In order to govern his subjects more easily, he would crush, subvert, nay, ruthlessly destroy, their strength, their spirit, and their self-respect! He would violate the inmost core of their individuality, doubtless with the view of promoting their happiness. He would annihilate them, that they may assume a new, a different form. Oh! if his purpose be good, he is fatally misguided! It is not the king whom we resist;--we but place ourselves in the way of the monarch, who, unhappily, is about to take the first rash step in a wrong direction.

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