Jean Monologue from The Father

From The Father by August Strindberg

male · dark · 46 sec

Be so good as not to make a scene. Your welfare, your life, is at stake. So--quickly. (Snatches bird from her and goes to chopping block and takes up meat chopper). You should have learned how to chop off a chicken's head instead of shooting with a revolver. (He chops off the bird's head). Then you wouldn't swoon at a drop of blood. JULIE (Shrieks). Kill me, too. Kill me! You who can butcher an innocent bird without a tremble. Oh, how I shrink from you. I curse the moment I first saw you. I curse the moment I was conceived in my mother's womb.

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