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

Arise to Him! And with this water now Your soul is purified of every filth And hurries to Him.

(He baptizes her with the water from a cup taken from the table.)

HIPPIA

Father, I feel at ease!

(She dies.)

CATULUS (preparing to leave.)

And I am leaving now for Thebais —

I am disgusted with this sinful world.

CLUVIA

Catulus, wait! I wish to go with you.

(They depart together.)

ADAM (is lost in his thoughts and steps to the front. Eve follows him.)

Juha — still here? What are you looking for Where death has ravaged every happiness?

EVE

My place must be with you, wherever you are. Sergiolus, you often could have found Many a noble feeling in my heart —

You only searched for waning joys in it.

ADAM

Also in me. Alas, that it was so!

To perish painfully and suffer till Our day is come. If God is there, alive,

(He kneels down and lifts his hands toward heaven.) And if we are subjected to His care,

Then He shall bring new people to this world To pour new blood into our shrunken veins,

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