Monologue

Hjalmar Monologue from The Wild Duck

From The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

male · defiant · 57 sec

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Really? You’ve not? Ah! well, up there in the woods and wilds---- (GREGERS: So you’ve made an invention!) Well, I’ve not exactly made it yet, but I’m working at it. Surely you can understand that when I decided to sacrifice myself to photography, it wasn’t in order to take likenesses of all sorts of commonplace people. (GREGERS: No, no, that was what your wife was just saying.) I vowed that if I did devote my powers to this manual labor I would at least raise it so high that it should be both an art and a science. And so I made up my mind to make this remarkable invention.

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30s · determination · ambition · identity · art · self-sacrifice

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