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Kroll Monologue from Rosmersholm

From Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 1:35 min

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Indeed it has. Into my own school. What do you think of this? I have got wind of the fact that the boys in the top class--or rather, a part of the boys in it--have formed themselves into a secret society and have been taking in Mortensgaard's paper! (Rebecca: Ah, the "Searchlight".) Yes, don't you think that is a nice sort of intellectual pabulum for future public servants? But the saddest part of it is that it is all the most promising boys in the class that have conspired together and hatched this plot against me. It is only the duffers and dunces that have held aloof from it. (Rebecca: Do you take it so much to heart, Mr. Kroll?) Do I take it to heart, to find myself so hampered and thwarted in my life's work? (Speaking more gently.) I might find it in my heart to say that I could even take that for what it is worth; but I have not told you the worst of it yet. (Looks round the room.) I suppose nobody is likely to be listening at the doors?

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30s · anger · power · ambition · betrayal · isolation

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