Monologue

Solness Monologue from The Master Builder

From The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen

male · anguished · 43 sec

The luck will turn. I know it--I feel the day approaching. Some one or other will take it into his head to say: Give me a chance! And then all the rest will come clamouring after him, and shake their fists at me and shout: Make room--make room--! Yes, just you see, doctor--presently the younger generation will come knocking at my door-- (DR. HERDAL: Well, and what if they do?) What if they do? Then there's an end of Halvard Solness. [There is a knock at the door on the left.

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