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Louisa Monologue from Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy

From Love and Intrigue: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

female · anguished · 1:39 min

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This was still wanting! This! Yes, in truth. I now feel that my heart does love another besides Ferdinand! That could not be allowed to escape! The prince's dignity offended? Heavenly Providence! Save, oh! save my sinking faith! (After a moment's pause, she turns to WORM.) And Ferdinand? (WORM: Must choose between Lady Milford's hand and his father's curse and disinheritance.) Terrible choice!--and yet--yet is he the happier of the two. He has no father to lose--and yet to have none is misery enough! My father imprisoned for treason--my Ferdinand compelled to choose between Lady Milford's hand or a parent's curse and disinheritance! Truly admirable! for even villany so perfect is perfection! Perfection? No! something is still wanting to complete that. Where is my mother? (WORM: In the house of correction.) Now the measure is full! It is full, and I am free--released from all duties--all sorrows--all joys! Released even from Providence! I have nothing more to do with it! (A dreadful pause.) Have you aught else to communicate? Speak freely--now I can hear anything with indifference.

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20s · sadness · love · family · betrayal · identity

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