Smirnov Monologue from The Boor

From The Boor by Anton Tchekoff

male · defiant · 57 sec

And you think that because you are a romantic creature that you can insult me without being punished? I challenge you! We'll have a duel. That is the limit! I allow no one to insult me and I make no exception because you are a woman, one of the "weaker sex"! It is high time to do away with the old superstition that it is only a man who is forced to give satisfaction. If there is equity at all let there be equity in all things. There's a limit! Immediately. I'll shoot her down! I'm no fledgling, no sentimental, young puppy. For me there is no weaker sex.

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