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Solness Monologue from The Master Builder

From The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 1:28 min

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Yes, entirely. If I happen to look at her when her back is turned, I can tell that she feels it. She quivers and trembles the moment I come near her. What do you think of that? (DR. HERDAL: H'm--that's not very hard to explain.) Well, but what about the other thing? That she believed I had said to her what I had only wished and willed--silently--inwardly--to myself? What do you say to that? Can you explain that, Dr. Herdal? (DR. HERDAL: No, I won't undertake to do that.) I felt sure you would not; and so I have never cared to talk about it till now.--But it's a cursed nuisance to me in the long run, you understand. Here have I got to go on day after day, pretending--. And it's a shame to treat her so, too, poor girl. (Vehemently.) But I cannot do anything else. For if she runs away from me--then Ragnar will be off too.

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30s · confusion · identity · betrayal · ambition · isolation

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