Monologue

A Monologue is a long speech by a fictional character whose is addressing other characters.

• Context:
  • It can (often) express Mental Thoughts.
• Example(s):
  • Mark Antony's "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears".
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Soliloquy, such as Hamlet's "to be or not to be".
  • an Aside.
• See: Theatre, Character (Arts), Audience, Play (Theatre), Film.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/monologue Retrieved:2014-9-10.
  • In theatre, a monologue (from Greek μονόλογος from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is presented by a single character, most often to express their mental thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience. Monologues are common across the range of dramatic media (plays, films, etc.), as well as in non-dramatic media such as poetry. Monologues share much in common with several other literary devices including soliloquies, apostrophes, and aside. There are, however, distinctions between each of these devices.

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/soliloquy Retrieved:2014-9-10.
  • … A soliloquy is distinct from a monologue or an aside: a monologue is a speech where one character addresses other characters; an aside is a (usually short) comment by one character towards the audience, though during the play it may seem like the character is addressing him or herself.

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