Monologue

Relling Monologue from The Wild Duck

From The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen

male · contemplative · 50 sec

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Yes, think of it, he, the bear-hunter, goes into that gloomy loft and hunts rabbits! There’s not a sportsman on earth happier than that old man, when he’s bustling about in there with all that rubbish. The four or five withered Christmas trees that he stored up there are to him the same as the whole of the great, fresh Hojdal forest; the cock and the hens are to him game perched on the top of fir trees, and the rabbits hopping about the floor of the loft, they are the bears he grapples with, he, the hardy old hunter.

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Relling reflects on the simple joys and illusions of an old bear-hunter who finds happiness in his mundane surroundings, contrasting the grandeur of his past with the reality of his current life.

50s · joy · identity · freedom · isolation · redemption

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