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
But you must speak! This mob Just now was groveling in the dust before you. ADAM This is the reason everything is vain, The people never pardon their own shame. LUCIFER Have you then sobered up? ADAM Indeed, I have. LUCIFER Do you not realize that you have been A nobler lord to them than they to you? ADAM Perhaps! But still both are perdition, and Under another name fate is the same. One cannot fight against his destiny - I never will — And why should I? Why should An ardent heart aspire to greatness? Let Everyone live his life and look for raptures To fill this little span of being with them; Then let him, drunken, stagger toward his Hades - Show me another way, and lead me on That I may laugh at virtues and man’s pain! I want delight, a life in raptures spent — And you, my wife, I feel deep in my heart, You conjured up a garden long ago Inside a desert; like a decent mother, Bring up my son to be a citizen! You are a fool, you should be mocked by all Those painted girls inside each brothel-hall Who sit with kissing lips and drink their wine -SECOND DEMAGOGUE 180
