Monologue

Kristin Monologue from Miss Julie

From Miss Julie by August Strindberg

female · defiant · 1:43 min

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Yes! He was good enough, to be sure, but there's a difference between people just the same. No, this I can never forget. Miss Julie who was always so proud and indifferent to men! One never would believe that she would give herself--and to one like you! She who was ready to have Diana shot because she would run after the gatekeeper's mongrels. Yes, I say it--and here I won't stay any longer and on the twenty-fourth of October I go my way. (JEAN: And then?) Well, as we've come to talk about it, it's high time you looked around for something else, since we're going to get married. (JEAN: Well, what'll I look for? A married man couldn't get a place like this.) No, of course not. But you could take a gatekeeper's job or look for a watchman's place in some factory. The government's plums are few, but they are sure. And then the wife and children get a pension-- JEAN (With a grimace). That's all very fine--all that, but it's not exactly in my line to think about dying for my wife and children just now. I must confess that I have slightly different aspirations.

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30s · disgust · betrayal · identity · power · ambition

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