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Henriette Monologue from There Are Crimes and Crimes

From There Are Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg

female · anguished · 1:40 min

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And what about me? I am afraid to live, dare hardly breathe, dare hardly think even, since I know that somebody is spying not only on my words but on my thoughts. (ADOLPHE: So it was here you sat that night when I couldn't find you?) Yes, but don't talk of it. I could die from shame when I think of it. Adolphe, you are made of a different, a better, stuff than he or I--- (ADOLPHE: Sh, sh, sh!) Yes, indeed! And what was it that made me stay here? I was lazy; I was tired; his success intoxicated me and bewitched me--I cannot explain it. But if you had come, it would never have happened. And to-day you are great, and he is small--less than the least of all. Yesterday he had one hundred thousand francs. To-day he has nothing, because his play has been withdrawn. And public opinion will never excuse him, for his lack of faith will be judged as harshly as if he were the murderer, and those that see farthest hold that the child died from sorrow, so that he was responsible for it anyhow.

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20s · fear · identity · betrayal · isolation · ambition

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