FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Question
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Soliloquy
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Aside
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Dialogue
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Monologue
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Detailed explanation-1: -In a story or play, a character may turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can’t hear. This act is referred to as an aside in literature.
Detailed explanation-2: -An aside is a speech or short comment that a character delivers directly to an audience. A key characteristic of an aside is that other characters on screen or on stage (in a play) appear not to hear the speech or comment. Asides or typically short.
Detailed explanation-3: -An aside is when a fictional character breaks away from the events of the story to talk to themselves or directly to the audience.
Detailed explanation-4: -Aside (if analyzing characterization) Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not “heard” by the other characters on stage during a play. In Shakespeare’s Othello, Iago voices his inner thoughts a number of times as “asides” for the play’s audience.
Detailed explanation-5: -For example, when describing his would-be stepfather, Hamlet notes in an aside: A little more than kin and less than kind. This comment is directed to the audience as a co-conspirator in Hamlet’s plot.