Oceana Monologue from The Naturewoman

From The Naturewoman by Upton Sinclair

female · philosophical · 1:03 min

I have chosen a certain course. I have forced myself to be calm, to think it out in the cold light of reason, to decide what is right for me to do. And now I must keep to my resolution. You would not want our love to lead me into shame! (HENRY: No!) Do you read Nietzsche, Henry? (HENRY: He is a mere name to me.) I will give you some lines of Nietzsche's. "Canst thou give thyself thy good and thine evil, and hang thy will above thee as thy law? Canst thou be thine own judge, and avenger of thy law? Fearful is it to be alone with the judge and the avenger of thy law. So is a stone flung out into empty space and into the icy breath of isolation."

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