Monologue

Helmer Monologue from A Doll's House

From A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 1:18 min

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It is so incredible that I can’t take it in. But we must come to some understanding. Take off that shawl. Take it off, I tell you. I must try and appease him some way or another. The matter must be hushed up at any cost. And as for you and me, it must appear as if everything between us were just as before—but naturally only in the eyes of the world. You will still remain in my house, that is a matter of course. But I shall not allow you to bring up the children; I dare not trust them to you. To think that I should be obliged to say so to one whom I have loved so dearly, and whom I still—. No, that is all over. From this moment happiness is not the question; all that concerns us is to save the remains, the fragments, the appearance— __

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Helmer grapples with the fallout of a personal crisis, struggling to maintain appearances while confronting the reality of his fractured relationship with his wife.

30s · despair · betrayal · power · family · identity

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