Monologue

Hjalmar Monologue from The Wild Duck

From The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 48 sec

I ask--what becomes now of the bread-winner’s dream? When I lay in there on the sofa pondering over the invention, I already had the presentiment that it would devour my whole powers. I felt, too, that the day when I should hold the patent in my hands--that day would be my last. And so it was my dream that you should be left here the well-to-do widow of the departed inventor. GINA . No, you _must_ not speak like that, Ekdal. God forbid I should live to see the day when I was a widow!

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