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Bellwork: 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? 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
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A monologue is a long speech that expresses the thoughts or feelings of one character.
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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.
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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-soliloquy- and-a-monologue http://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/literat ure/whats-the-difference-between-a-soliloquy- and-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.
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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.
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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.
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