Mrs Alving Monologue from Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts

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

female · defiant · 56 sec

You are wrong there, my friend. You are the one who made me begin to think; and I owe you my best thanks for it. (Menders: I!) Yes, by forcing me to submit to what you called my duty and my obligations; by praising as right and lust what my whole soul revolted against, as it would against something abominable. That was what led me to examine your teachings critically. I only wanted to unravel one point in them; but as soon as I had got that unravelled, the whole fabric came to pieces. And then I realised that it was only machine-made. (Manders: Is that all I accomplished by the hardest struggle of my life?) Call it rather the most ignominious defeat of your life.

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