Hjalmar Monologue from The Wild Duck

From The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

male · defiant · 42 sec

Why, my dear fellow, you mustn’t ask for such details yet. It takes time, you see. And you mustn’t believe that I am inspired by vanity. Truly, I’m not working for my own sake. Oh, no! It is my life--a mission that I see before me night and day. (GREGERS: What life-mission is that?) Have you forgotten the old man with the silver hair? (GREGERS: Your poor father; but what can you really do for him?) I can invoke his self-respect from the dead, by raising up the name of Ekdal to honor and respect again.

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