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Rebecca Monologue from Rosmersholm

From Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

female · anguished · 1:33 min

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I thought there were two lives here to choose between, John. (Kroll: You had no right to make any such choice.) Surely you do not think I acted with cold and calculating composure! I am a different woman now, when I am telling you this, from what I was then. And I believe two different kinds of will can exist at the same time in one person. I wanted Beata away--in one way or the other; but I never thought it would happen, all the same. At every step I ventured and risked, I seemed to hear a voice in me crying: "No further! Not a step further!" And yet, at the same time, I COULD not stop. I HAD to venture a little bit further--just one step. And then another--and always another--and at last it happened. That is how such things go of themselves. (A short silence.) (Rosmer: And how do you think it will go with YOU in the future?--after this?) Things must go with me as they can. It is of very little consequence.

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30s · confusion · identity · fate · betrayal · freedom

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