Alice monologue — Plays by August Strindberg, First Series

[_With her face close to the_ CAPTAIN's] Where is your own strength now? Tell me? Where is your energy? [_The_ CAPTAIN, _speechless, spits in her face_] Oh, you can still squirt venom, you viper--then I'll tear the tongue out of your throat! [_Cuffs him on the ear_] The head is off, but still it blushes!--O, Judith, glorious girl, whom I have carried like vengeance under my heart--you, you have set us free, all of us!--? If you have more heads than one, Hydra, we'll take them! [_Pulls his beard_] Think only that justice exists on the earth! Sometimes I dreamed it, but I could never believe it. Curt, ask God to pardon me for misjudging Him. Oh, there is justice! So I will become a sheep, too! Tell Him that, Curt! A little success makes us better, but adversity alone turns us into wolves.