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monologue, an extended speech by one person only. Strindberg's one-act play The Stronger, spoken entirely by one person, is an extreme example of monologue. Soliloquy is synonymous, but usually refers to a character in a play talking or thinking aloud to himself, giving the audience information essential to the plot. The most obvious example is Hamlet's "To be or not to be …" soliloquy. The dramatic monologue is a lyric poem in which one person speaks, reporting to a silent listener what other characters say and do, while providing insight into his own character, e.g., Browning's "My Last Duchess" and T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Interior monologue is a narrative technique meant to reproduce a character's thoughts, feelings, and associations in the untidy fashion in which they flow through the mind. The Molly Bloom section at the end of James Joyce's novel Ulysses is the most frequently cited example of perfect use of the device. monologue 1. a long speech made by one actor in a play, film, etc., esp when alone 2. a dramatic piece for a single performer How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Pleasant-voiced Snell reads with care and deliberation a narrative in which interior monologues and action share the stage. This was an oeuvre's chance to gather its thoughts, review its notes, and take stock of its main themes and particularly of its theoretical acquisitions in complete autonomy: describing and exploring itself in marvelously handled black-gouache drawings saturated with writing like so many interior monologues. It is no easy job to make sense of an interior monologue that shifts from past to present, from here to there, from memory to dream, but Jackson manages to shape this story into a coherent whole and to invest America's minute steps forward with a sense of desperate authenticity. |
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