Lindkvist Monologue from Easter

From Easter by August Strindberg

male · philosophical · 1:05 min

Yes, my young lover of justice, "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." That's the way it goes. Now, if I should put this question to myself: "You, Joseph Lindkvist, born in poverty and brought up in denial and work, have you the right at your age to deprive yourself and children--mark you, _your children_--of the support, which you thro' industry, economy and denial,--mark you, _denial_,--saved penny by penny? What will you do, Joseph Lindkvist, if you want justice? You plundered no one--but if you resent being plundered, then you cannot stay in this town, as no one would speak to the terrible creature who wants his own hard-earned money returned." So you see there exists a grace which is finer than justice, and that is mercy.

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