Monologue

The Physician Monologue from Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home

From Pélléas and Mélisande; Alladine and Palomides; Home by Maurice Maeterlinck

male · anguished · 1:05 min

It cannot be of that little wound she is dying; a bird would not have died of it.... It is not you, then, who have killed her, good my lord; do not be so disconsolate.... She could not have lived.... She was born without reason... to die; and she dies without reason.... And then, it is not sure we shall not save her.... ARKËL. No, no; it seems to me we keep too silent, in spite of ourselves, in her room.... It is not a good sign.... Look how she sleeps... slowly, slowly;... it is as if her soul was cold forever....

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