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Magda 79
. . . You think . . . because you are free and a great
artist, that you can set at naught
Magda. Leave art out of the question. Consider me
nothing more than the seamstress or the servant-maid
who seeks, among strangers, the little food and the little
love she needs. See how much the family with its
morality demand from us! It throws us on our own re
sources, it gives us neither shelter nor happiness, and yet,
in our loneliness, we must live according to the laws
which it has planned for itself alone. We must still
crouch in the corner, and there wait patiently until a re
spectful wooer happens to come. Yes, wait. And mean
while the war for existence of body and soul is consum
ing us. Ahead we see nothing but sorrow and despair,
and yet shall we not once dare to give what we have of
youth and strength to the man for whom our whole being
cries? Gag us, stupefy us, shut us up in harems or in
cloisters and that perhaps would be best. But if you
give us our freedom, do not wonder if we take advantage
of it.
But morality and. the family never understand
the Magdas. Least of all does the old Colonel
understand his daughter. Rigid in his false no
tions and superstitions, wrought up with distress,
he is about to carry out his threat, when a stroke
of apoplexy overtakes him.
In
"
Magda," Hermann Sudermann has
given to the world a new picture of modern wo
manhood, a type of free motherhood. As such
the play is of great revolutionary significance, not
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