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Shakespeare's Hamlet 6 Soliloquies vs Monologues 309 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
- 00:20
kind of imaginatively turning towards an audience right So usually
- 00:24
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
- 00:29
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
- 00:42
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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