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Engstrand Monologue from Ghosts

From Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 1:14 min

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I'm not puffed up about it, your Reverence. But what I wanted to say was, that when she came and confessed all to me, with weeping and gnashing of teeth, I can tell your Reverence I was sore at heart to hear it. (MANDERS: Were you indeed, Engstrand? Well, go on.) So I says to her, "The American, he's sailing about on the boundless sea. And as for you, Johanna," says I, "you've committed a grievous sin, and you're a fallen creature. But Jacob Engstrand," says I, "he's got two good legs to stand upon, he has--" You see, your Reverence, I was speaking figurative-like. (MANDERS: I understand quite well. Go on.) Well, that was how I raised her up and made an honest woman of her, so as folks shouldn't get to know how as she'd gone astray with foreigners.

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40s · sadness · redemption · betrayal · identity · family

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