Monologue

Jean Monologue from The Father

From The Father by August Strindberg

male · defiant · 46 sec

And if I protest against this misalliance? (JULIE: Misalliance!) Yes, for me. For you see I have a finer ancestry than you, for I have no fire-bug in my family. (JULIE: How do you know?) You can't prove the contrary. We have no family record except that which the police keep. But your pedigree I have read in a book on the drawing room table. Do you know who the founder of your family was? It was a miller whose wife found favor with the king during the Danish War. Such ancestry I have not.

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