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g6 Gerhart Hauptmann
John. Our prophetic feeling of a new, a free existence,
a far-off state of blessedness that feeling we will keep.
It shall never be forgotten, though it may never be real
ized. It shall be my guiding light; when this light is
extinguished, my life will be extinguished too.
Miss Mahr. John! one word more! This ring
was taken from the finger of a dead woman, who had
followed her her husband to Siberia and faithfully
shared his suffering to the end. Just the opposite to our
case. ... It is the only ring I have ever worn. Its
story is a thing to think of when one feels weak. And
when you look at it in hours of weakness then
think of her who, far away lonely like yourself
is fighting the same secret fight Good-bye !
But John lacks the strength for the fight. Life
to him is too lonely, too empty, too unbearably
desolate. He has to die a suicide.
What wonderful grasp of the deepest and most
hidden tones of the human soul! What signif
icance in the bitter truth that those who struggle
for an ideal, those who attempt to cut themselves
loose from the old, from the thousand fetters
that hold them down, are doomed to lonely
lives !
Gerhart Hauptmann has dedicated this play
"
to those who have lived this life." And there
are many, oh, so many who must live this life,
torn out root and all from the soil of their birth,
of their surroundings and past. LThe ideal they
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