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Julie Monologue from Miss Julie

From Miss Julie by August Strindberg

female · anguished · 1:08 min

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Perhaps. But you are too. Everything is wonderful for that matter. Life, people--everything. Everything is wreckage, that drifts over the water until it sinks, sinks. I have the same dream every now and then and at this moment I am reminded of it. I find myself seated at the top of a high pillar and I see no possible way to get down. I grow dizzy when I look down, but down I must. But I'm not brave enough to throw myself; I cannot hold fast and I long to fall--but I don't fall. And yet I can find no rest or peace until I shall come down to earth; and if I came down to earth I would wish myself down in the ground. Have you ever felt like that?

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Julie expresses her feelings of entrapment and despair, reflecting on her inability to escape her situation and the overwhelming sense of longing for peace.

20s · despair · isolation · madness · longing · death

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