ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A soliloquy is a type of monologue in which a character directly addresses an audience or speaks his thoughts aloud while alone or while the other actors keep silent.

Detailed explanation-2: -Soliloquy: A soliloquy is a long speech spoken by a single character not intended to be heard by any other character in the play.

Detailed explanation-3: -noun, plural so·lil·o·quies. an utterance or discourse by a person who is talking to himself or herself or is disregardful of or oblivious to any hearers present (often used as a device in drama to disclose a character’s innermost thoughts): Hamlet’s soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.”

Detailed explanation-4: -In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: , from mónos, “alone, solitary” and lógos, “speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.

Detailed explanation-5: -monologue, in literature and drama, an extended speech by one person. The term has several closely related meanings. A dramatic monologue (q.v.) is any speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person.