Bereczky Erzsébet (szerk.): Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man. Essays about the ideas and the directing of the Drama (Budapest, 1985)
Imre Madách: The Tragedy of Man - full text of the drama - Translated by Joseph Grosz
EVE You will be safe inside this sacred hall. Why did you send away your escort? Why Did you not bum this sinful nest to ashes? This rabble well deserves to carry chains! They feel that you, nobler than all of them, Are bom to be their master; thus they will Destroy you that they may not kiss your feet. FIRST DEMAGOGUE Do you hear how the traitor’s wife is talking? EVE Even it he is guilty, it’s the woman’s right To save her husband from the scoundrels’ spite. Besides, my husband’s free of every crime, Yet you, his rivals, are a mongrel breed. FIRST DEMAGOGUE Why should the gracious people be despised By such a woman? FIRST OF THE MOB Yet if her words were true? FIRST CITIZEN He who protects them is suspicious, too! Shout, dirty mob, or each of you must starve! THE MOB Death on his head! ADAM Cover this boy; he must Not see my blood! (To Eve.) And you, my darling, leave! This lightning ought to strike the cliff, not you. 178
