Mrs Alving Monologue from Ghosts

From Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

female · defiant · 53 sec

You are mistaken, my dear Pastor. It was you yourself who set me thinking; and I thank you for it with all my heart. (MANDERS: I!) Yes--when you forced me under the yoke of what you called duty and obligation; when you lauded as right and proper what my whole soul rebelled against as something loathsome. It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrines. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing ravelled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. (MANDERS: And was that the upshot of my life's hardest battle?) Call it rather your most pitiful defeat.

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