Monologue

Jean Monologue from The Father

From The Father by August Strindberg

male · defiant · 42 sec

No, that is my work which it is my duty to do, but I was not hired to be your play thing and that I shall never be. I think too well of myself for that. (JULIE: You are proud.) In some things--not in others. (JULIE: Were you ever in love?) We do not use that word, but I have liked many girls. One time I was sick because I couldn't have the one I wanted--sick, you understand, like the princesses in the Arabian Nights who could not eat nor drink for love sickness.

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