ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A soliloquy is when a character in a dramatic work speaks directly to the audience, expressing their inner thoughts. A soliloquy is a literary device that allows audience members to know what a character thinks or believes, providing an audience a way to better understand a character.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -A soliloquy (suh-lil-uh-kwee) is a literary device used in drama to reveal a character’s thoughts, feelings, secrets or plans to the audience. Characters usually deliver soliloquies while they are alone. If other characters are present, they are depicted as not having heard the soliloquy.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -A soliloquy is a monologue in which a character in a play expresses thoughts and feelings while being alone on stage. Soliloquies allow dramatists to communicate information about a character’s state of mind, hopes, and intentions directly to an audience.