Thekla Monologue from The Creditor

From The Creditor by August Strindberg

female · defiant · 1:04 min

Good God! I really believe you're beginning to have sympathy—for him? Well, look here. Wouldn't you like to make his acquaintance, so as to pour out your heart to him if you want to? What a charming picture! But I, too, begin to feel myself drawn to him somehow. I'm tired of being the nurse of a baby like you. He at any rate was a man, even though he did make the mistake of being my husband. What does it matter, so long as we're taken for man and wife. There are no limits to my keenness, as you see. And my heart is open to the whole world, great and small, beautiful and ugly. I love the whole world.

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