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Bellwork:
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Answer this in 5-6
sentences on page 18 of
your INB
 What is a monologue?
What is the function of
a monologue in a play?
Why would a
playwright decide to
include one?
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Agenda:
Bellwork (page 18)
 Notes: Monologue (page 19)
 Classwork: Write a
monologue for Lizzie
confessing to the murders
 REMINDERS: Journals are
due. If Napoli can get up here
to check them, she will. If not,
Ms. Howard will check them
tomorrow. You needed 4; two
for Act 1 and two for Act 2
with corresponding left sides.
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Notes: on page 19 of your INB
A monologue is a long speech
that expresses the thoughts or
feelings of one character.
In theatre, the monologue can be
a great gift. It's a gift to the
audience to look up on that stage
and see inside the thoughts of a
human being. For the great
monologues are private
moments, secrets, emotions,
heartbreaks, wonders.
In every monologue, there must be the
need for the character to speak.
Monologues can also tell us what drives
the character and character’s motivation.
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They each involve a solitary speaker.
The difference between the two
doesn't have to do with who's
talking but with who's listening.
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A monologue — from the Greek
monos ("single") and legein ("to
speak") — is a speech given by a
single person to an audience.
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But a soliloquy — from the Latin solus
("alone") and loqui ("to speak") — is a speech
that one gives to oneself.
In a play, a character delivering a soliloquy
talks to herself — thinking out loud, as it were
— so that the audience better understands
what is happening to the character internally
Source:
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/literat
ure/whats-the-difference-between-a-soliloquyand-a-monologue
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A monologue should have a beginning, middle
and an end.
A monologue should always reveal something
– be it a story, a secret, an answer to a question,
or an emotional outpouring.
A monologue offers insight into the character.
What if Blood Relations ended with
Lizzie confessing to her sister and the
actress? Using what you have learned,
write a monologue for Lizzie
confessing to the murders.
Do this on page 18 of your INB.
Follow the requirements of a
monologue found in the notes taken
today. It should be at least 25-30 lines.
How could you just use me like this? I thought
we had something together. I thought I meant
something to you. When you chose me, I was so
excited. ME, you picked me out of everyone else.
I was a little worried about leaving home, even
though it was always, always cold in there, but I
just knew that together we would have the most
exciting and fabulous life. I gave up everything
for you. And you --- you just threw me away.
You used me up, and threw me away. Was this
all I meant to you? Was I just some … container
to you? Nothing more? You could at least have
put me in the recycling bin.
Your Choice