Manders Monologue from Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts

From Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts by Henrik Ibsen

male · defiant · 58 sec

And all these years you have been hiding the truth from me--from me, who have had such complete and absolute faith in you. (Engstrand: I am sorry to say I have, sir.) Did I deserve that from you, Engstrand? Haven't I been always ready to help you in word and deed as far as lay in my power? Answer me! Is it not so? (Engstrand: Indeed there's many a time I should have been very badly off without you, sir.) And this is the way you repay me--by causing me to make false entries in the church registers, and afterwards keeping back from me for years the information which you owed it both to me and to your sense of the truth to divulge. Your conduct has been absolutely inexcusable, Engstrand, and from today everything is at an end between us.

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