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
THIRD SCENE (A lovely landscape outside of Eden. A small rude wooden hut. Adam is setting posts to make a fence. Eve is making a bower. Lucifer.) ADAM Just this is mine. Instead of all the world This little spot of earth becomes my home. I shall protect it from voracious beasts And force its soil to yield our daily bread. EVE And I shall build a bower like the one We had before; and so I shall bring back Our lost Garden of Eden. LUCIFER You have spoken Quite important words. Thus Family And Property shall soon become the two Central incentives of the human brain. They will give birth to every joy and pain. These two conceptions will grow steadily Till they become — as Home and Industry — The parents of the noble, great and new, And the devourers of their children, too! ADAM You speak in riddles; yet you promised me Knowledge. For this I disavowed delight, That I could merit greatness as I struggle — And what is the result? LUCIFER Do you not feel it? 145
