Monologue

Pastor Moser Monologue from The Robbers

From The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller

male · philosophical · 58 sec

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So says the philosophy of your despair. But your own heart, which knocks against your ribs with terror even while you thus argue, gives your tongue the lie. These cobwebs of systems are swept away by the single word--"Thou must die!" I challenge you, and be this the test: If you maintain your firmness in the hour of death; if your principles do not then miserably desert you, you shall be admitted to have the best of the argument. But if, in that dread hour, the least shudder creeps over you, then woe be to you! you have deceived yourself. FRANCIS (disturbed). If in the hour of death a shudder creeps over me?

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40s · fear · death · despair · identity · fate

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