ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Monologue: A long, uninterrupted speech by one character while other characters are onstage. Soliloquy: An unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts and feelings aloud.

Detailed explanation-2: -A soliloquy (q.v.) 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-3: -Soliloquy is the word we traditionally use to refer to a monologue that is delivered when the character is alone. In Shakespeare’s plays, for example, there are many speeches that begin with a character saying something like “Now I am alone.” And you know you are about to experience a soliloquy.

Detailed explanation-4: -soliloquy, passage in a drama in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while either alone upon the stage or with the other actors keeping silent.

Detailed explanation-5: -Ever see someone talking while alone on a stage? That’s what you call a soliloquy-a speech made by a character in a drama as if that character is voicing their own private thoughts.