The Rat-Wife Monologue from Little Eyolf

From Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen

female · dark · 51 sec

Oh, not at all! No, we go down to the boat, he and I do--and then they follow after us, both the big ones and the little ratikins. (EYOLF: And what then--tell me!) Then we push out from the land, and I scull with one oar, and play on my Pan's-pipes. And Mopsëman, he swims behind. (With glittering eyes.) And all the creepers and crawlers, they follow and follow us out into the deep, deep waters. Ay, for they have to. (EYOLF: Why do they have to?) Just because they want not to--just because they are so deadly afraid of the water. That is why they have got to plunge into it.

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