Monologue

Kroll Monologue from Rosmersholm

From Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

male · contemplative · 1:32 min

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Well, if you only make as good an editor as you did a parson, we shall be quite satisfied. (Rosmer: My dear Kroll--once for all--I cannot do it.) Well, then, I suppose you will give us the use of your name, at all events? (Rosmer: My name?) Yes, the mere fact of John Rosmer's name being connected with it will be a great advantage to the paper. We others are looked upon as pronounced partisans. I myself even have the reputation of being a wicked fanatic, I am told. Therefore we cannot count upon our own names to give us any particular help in making the paper known to the misguided masses. But you, on the contrary, have always held aloof from this kind of fighting. Your gentle and upright disposition, your polished mind, your unimpeachable honour, are known to and appreciated by every one about here. And then there is the deference and respect that your former position as a clergyman ensures for you--and, besides that, there is the veneration in which your family, name is held!

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30s · anticipation · honor · identity · power · ambition

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