Monologue

Stranger Monologue from To Damascus

From To Damascus by August Strindberg

male · defiant · 1:09 min

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Get up and collect your thoughts. Listen to me, believe me, and pay me the respect that's my due; and I'll lift both of us high above this frog pond, to which we've both descended. I'll breathe on your sick conscience so that it heals like a wound. Who am I? A man who has done what no one else has ever done; who will overthrow the Golden Calf and upset the tables of the money-changers. I hold the fate of the world in my crucible; and in a week I can make the richest of the rich a poor man. Gold, the most false of all standards, has ceased to rule; every man will now be as poor as his neighbour, and the children of men will hurry about like ants whose heap has been disturbed.

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The Stranger addresses another character with a sense of urgency and authority, promising to elevate them from their current state of despair and confusion, while challenging societal norms and values.

30s · determination · power · redemption · identity · fate

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