Surangama Monologue from The King of the Dark Chamber

From The King of the Dark Chamber by Rabindranath Tagore

female · anguished · 1:10 min

Oh, it made me quite furious. I was on the road to ruin and destruction: when that path was closed for me, I seemed left without any support, without any succour or shelter. I raged and raved like a wild beast in a cage--how I wanted to tear every one to pieces in my powerless anger! (SUDARSHANA: But how did you get this devotion towards that same King?) How can I tell? Perhaps I could rely and depend on him because he was so hard, so pitiless! (SUDARSHANA: When did this change of feeling take place?) I could not tell you--I do not know that myself. A day came when all the rebel in me knew itself beaten, and then my whole nature bowed down in humble resignation on the dust of the earth. And then I saw... I saw that he was as matchless in beauty as in terror. Oh. I was saved, I was rescued.

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