Monologue

Hjalmar Monologue from The Wild Duck

From The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

male · contemplative · 40 sec

It was that debauchee Relling, who made me take it up. (GREGERS: Relling?) Yes, it was he who first called my attention to my aptitude for making some remarkable discovery in photography. (GREGERS: Aha! it was Relling!) Ah! I have been so intensely happy over this. Not so much for the invention or for myself, but because Hedvig believed in it--with all the strength and might of a child’s mind. That is to say I was fool enough to persuade myself she believed in it.

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