Lyngstrand Monologue from The Lady from the Sea

From The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

male · melancholic · 56 sec

Oh! madam, he's certainly not living now. (Ellida: Why do you think that?) Why? Because we were shipwrecked afterwards in the Channel. I had got into the longboat with the captain and five others. The mate got into the stern-boat; and the American was in that too, and another man. (Ellida: And nothing has been heard of them since?) Not a word. The friend who looks after me said so quite recently in a letter. But it's just because of this I was so anxious to make it into a work of art. I see the faithless sailor-wife so life-like before me, and the avenger who is drowned, and who nevertheless comes home from the sea. I can see them both so distinctly.

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