Monologue

Stranger Monologue from To Damascus

From To Damascus by August Strindberg

male · anguished · 1:00 min

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That's nothing; I want to see them! (Pause.) What one says is mostly worthless. (Pause.) May I read them? No, I see I mayn't. You want nothing more from me. (The LADY makes a gesture as if she were going to speak.) Your face tells me enough. Now you've sucked me dry, eaten me hollow, killed my ego, my personality. To that I answer: how, my beloved? Have I killed your ego, when I wanted to give you the whole of mine; when I let you skim the cream off my bowl, that I'd filled with all the experience of along life, with incursions into the deserts and groves of knowledge and art?

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The Stranger confronts another character about the emotional toll of their relationship, expressing feelings of being drained and questioning the nature of their connection.

30s · despair · identity · betrayal · power · isolation

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