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Morten Kiil Monologue from An Enemy of the People

From An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

male · defiant · 1:28 min

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Do you know what money I have bought these shares with? No, of course you can't know—but I will tell you. It is the money that Katherine and Petra and the boys will have when I am gone. Because I have been able to save a little bit after all, you know. (Dr. Stockmann: And you have gone and taken Katherine's money for this!) Yes, the whole of the money is invested in the Baths now. And now I just want to see whether you are quite stark, staring mad, Thomas! If you still make out that these animals and other nasty things of that sort come from my tannery, it will be exactly as if you were to flay broad strips of skin from Katherine's body, and Petra's, and the boys'; and no decent man would do that—unless he were mad. (Dr. Stockmann: Yes, but I am mad; I am mad!) You cannot be so absurdly mad as all that, when it is a question of your wife and children.

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50s · anger · madness · betrayal · power · family

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