A monologue is a type of text that is interpreted or uttered by only one person. In this way, the speech is made for itself, so that the audience, readers or listeners have the feeling of reading the mind of its interpreter.
A play can be a whole monologue, or it can also be just part of a staging in which other characters are or are not present. At the moment of the monologue, if more actors are on the scene, they don't talk to each other.
monologue classification
Although the monologue is not exclusive to the theater, it is very often associated with the dramatic genre.
According to the Theater Dictionary of Patricepavis, the monologue can be:
- Technician - Ideas are passed on to the public.
- Lyrical - The character's speech resembles an emotionally charged confidence.
- inReflectionorDecision - Faced with a decision, the character reflects and discusses with himself what to do, what decision to take.
Often we only find the rating for two typesinmonologuestheatrical: O monologueexterior it's the monologueinterior.
In this sense, the exterior monologue would be the technical monologue, while the lyrical and reflection monologue would be a reference to the interior monologue.
Examples of monologues
“And you know what?
Every time the suffering comes,
this desire to be close, if far away
or be closer if closer
What do I know?
This feeling weak,
the extravasated chest
the honey running,
this inability to feel more like me, Orpheus;
All that is quite capable
to confuse a man's spirit.”
(Excerpt from the Monologue of Orpheus, by Vinícius de Moraes)
“I am a child! I recently arrived from a long journey. I walked the mysterious path of my parents' thoughts, and during conception I had a very happy internship next to my mother's heart.
I'm here today, a little scared, because adults talk confusing things that I still can't understand. Life is simple and beautiful, but adults complicate everything.”
(Excerpt from Child's Monologue, by Ivone Boechat)
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