Katerina Monologue from The Storm

From The Storm by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

female · anguished · 1:12 min

If it's so far off, we'll wait then a little, if you like; but really it would be better to go. Yes, we'd better go home. (VARVARA: But if anything were to happen, you know, you'd be no safer at home.) No, but still, it's better there, it's quieter; at home one can turn to the holy pictures and pray to God! (VARVARA: I didn't know you were so afraid of a thunderstorm. I'm not afraid, you see.) Don't talk of not being afraid! Everyone must be afraid. What is dreadful is not it's killing you, but that death may overtake you all of a sudden, just as you are, with all your sins, with all your erring thoughts. I have no fear of death, but when I think that I shall be brought all at once before the face of God just as I am here, with you, after this talk,--that's what is awful! What I had in my heart! What wickedness! fearful to think of! (Thunder.) Ah! [ (Enter Kabanov.)

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