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Shakespeare's Hamlet 6 Soliloquies vs Monologues 308 Views


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What's the difference between a soliloquy and a monologue? Come to think of it, why don't we soliloquize more often? We're going to start doing that at parties. Maybe then, we'll finally stop being invited to parties. 

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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's hamlet Soliloquies versus monologue

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Alas shmoop What is the difference between a salute likley

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and a monologue So absolutely is where the character is

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kind of imaginatively turning towards an audience right So usually

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this this is done when there's no one else on

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the scene at all If there are other people that

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happen to be on stage they're not kind of They're

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not hearing the speech so a monologue is just an

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extended thing that one person says right so i'm monologue

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ing at you right now If i were like gaze

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wistfully into the distance and think but what did i

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have for breakfast And then like our imaginary worlds you

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didn't hear that That would be a slow clea right

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So once about externalizing an internal state kind of in

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an imaginary bubbling and one's about just speaking alone for

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an extended period of time Yeah what is the difference

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between a soliloquy and a monologue More

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