Rosmer Monologue from Rosmersholm

From Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

male · defiant · 1:02 min

What I mean is--does not such a tie as that--such a tie as ours--seem to belong properly to a life lived in quiet, happy peacefulness? (Rebecca: Well?) But now I see stretching before me a life of strife and unrest and violent emotions. For I mean to live my life, Rebecca! I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. I am not going to have my course of life prescribed for me, either by any living soul or by another. (Rebecca: No, no--do not! Be a free man in everything, John!) Do you understand what is in my Mind, then? Do you not know? Do you not see how I could best win my freedom from all these harrowing memories from the whole sad past?

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