"Monopolylogue" Pronounce,Meaning And Examples

"Monopolylogue" Meaning

A monopolylogue is a dramatic device where a single actor plays all the characters in a scene, using different voices, accents, and mannerisms to convey the thoughts and emotions of each character.

"Monopolylogue" Examples

Monopolylogue

Definition:

A monopolylogue is a conversation between two characters, where one character speaks at length, dominating the conversation and addressing themselves as "we".

Examples:

1. In a play:

In the famous play "Hamlet", the character Hamlet has a monopolylogue with himself, where he debates whether or not to kill his uncle.

[Hamlet]: "We know what we are, but know not what we may be. O, that this too, too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed his canon 'gainst self-slaughter! Oh, God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"

2. In a novel:

In Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", Mr. Darcy has a monopolylogue with himself, reflecting on his feelings towards Elizabeth Bennet.

"All this ended with the visit to Rosings Park, which he had chosen with the utmost care, considering that it would be their last, and he therefore intended to make it all his own, with the exception of some peevish, amusing, consoling, sweet-tempered, ignorant, argumentative, wholly-inadequate explanation, as we may imagine him saying."

3. In a poem:

In T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", the character Hyacinth talks to himself, getting lost in his own thoughts.

"April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land; Our of this stony rubbish He fashioned it Into something more permanently useful; As we must, being better equipped. For Thistledown."

4. In a script:

In the TV series "The Office", Michael Scott has a monopolylogue with himself, rehearsing his lines for a company meeting.

"Okay, so we're gonna make some changes, right? Big changes. And I'm gonna lead the way. Because, let's face it, no one else can do it. I mean, Jim, you're a slacker. Dwight, you're, like, a generalist. Pam, you're...you're...Pam. Okay, so we're gonna make some changes, and we're gonna make them big."

5. In a speech:

In his inaugural speech, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a monopolylogue with himself, reflecting on the State of