Monologue

Frida Monologue from John Gabriel Borkman

From John Gabriel Borkman by Henrik Ibsen

female · dramatic · 1:04 min

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Good-night, Mr. Borkman. [She goes out by the little tapestry door in the back on the left. [BORKMAN, lost in thought, goes up to the piano, and is about to close it, but changes his mind. Looks round the great empty room, and sets to pacing up and down it from the corner at the back on the right--pacing backward and forward uneasily and incessantly. At last he goes up to the writing-table, listens in the direction of the folding door, hastily snatches up a hand-glass, looks at himself in it, and straightens his necktie. [A knock at the folding door. BORKMAN hears it, looks rapidly towards the door, but says nothing. [In a little there comes another knock, this time louder.

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Frida bids goodnight to Mr. Borkman, leaving him in a state of deep contemplation and unease as he paces the empty room, hinting at a tension-filled moment before an anticipated encounter.

20s · anticipation · isolation · identity · longing · power

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