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Emile Monologue from There Are Crimes and Crimes

From There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg

male · anguished · 53 sec

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Has he promised to marry you? (JEANNE: No, not promised exactly, but he has held out hopes.) Hopes, yes! Do you remember my words at the start: don't hope for anything, for those above us don't marry downward. (JEANNE: But such things have happened.) Yes, they have happened. But, would you feel at home in his world? I can't believe it, for you wouldn't even understand what they were talking of. Now and then I take my meals where he is eating--out in the kitchen is my place, of course--and I don't make out a word of what they say.

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30s · despair · class disparity · unrequited love · isolation · identity

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