Rosmer Monologue from Rosmersholm

From Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 59 sec

If the doctors had ever seen her in the state in which I have so often seen her, both night and day, they would have had no doubt about it. (Kroll: I did not doubt it either, at the time.) Of course not. It was impossible to doubt it, unfortunately. You remember what I told you of her ungovernable, wild fits of passion--which she expected me to reciprocate. She terrified me! And think how she tortured herself with baseless self-reproaches in the last years of her life! (Kroll: Yes, when she knew that she would always be childless.) Well, think what it meant--to be perpetually in the clutches of such--agony of mind over a thing that she was not in the slightest degree responsible for--! Are you going to suggest that she was accountable for her actions?

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