Julie Monologue from The Father

From The Father by August Strindberg

female · anguished · 1:02 min

And proud. (JEAN: Why not? Although I must confess that the conquest was too easy to be exciting.) Go on, strike me again-- JEAN (Rising). No, forgive me, rather, for what I said. I do not strike the unarmed, least of all, a woman. But I can't deny that from a certain point of view it gives me satisfaction to know that it is the glitter of brass, not gold, that dazzles us from below, and that the eagle's back is grey like the rest of him. On the other hand, I'm sorry to have to realize that all that I have looked up to is not worth while, and it pains me to see you fallen lower than your cook as it pains me to see autumn blossoms whipped to pieces by the cold rain and transformed into--dirt!

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