Monologue

Oswald Monologue from Ghosts

From Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

male · defiant · 1:14 min

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Let me tell you, sir, that I have been in the habit of spending nearly all my Sundays in one or two such irregular homes-- (MANDERS: Sunday of all days!) Isn't that the day to enjoy one's self? Well, never have I heard an offensive word, and still less have I witnessed anything that could be called immoral. No; do you know when and where I have come across immorality in artistic circles? (MANDERS: No, thank heaven, I don't!) Well, then, allow me to inform you. I have met with it when one or other of our pattern husbands and fathers has come to Paris to have a look round on his own account, and has done the artists the honour of visiting their humble haunts. They knew what was what. These gentlemen could tell us all about places and things we had never dreamt of.

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20s · defiance · identity · freedom · art · morality

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