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

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

female · anguished · 42 sec

You said yourself this evening what would happen in your case if you stayed at home. (Oswald: Do you mean by that, that father--?) Your poor father never found any outlet for the overmastering joy of life that was in him. And I brought no holiday spirit into his home, either. (Oswald: You didn't, either?) I had been taught about duty, and the sort of thing that I believed in so long here. Everything seemed to turn upon duty--my duty, or his duty--and I am afraid I made your poor father's home unbearable to him, Oswald.

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