Need an example of a dramatic monologue!?

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Have to give a speech for a dramatic monologue and need some examples. The speech has to last 45 seconds to a minute. Thanks in advance.

I would like links to websites that offer examples.

Answer 1

A dramatic monologue is a type of poem, developed during the Victorian period, in which a character in fiction or in history delivers a speech explaining his or her feelings, actions, or motives. The monologue is usually directed toward a silent audience, with the speaker's words influenced by a critical situation. An example of a dramatic monologue exists in My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, when a duke speaks to an emissary of his cruelty. Another example is the modernist poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot and also, in a more contemporary way, "The Captain of the 1964 Top of the Form Team" by Carol Ann Duffy, and "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath.


LUCIFER: A superior?! Superior?!
No! By heaven, which he
Holds, and the abyss, and the immensity
Of worlds and life, which I hold with him—No!
I have a Victor—true; but no superior.
Homage he has from all—but none from me:
I battle it against him, as I battled
In highest Heaven—through all Eternity,
And the unfathomable gulfs of Hades,
And the interminable realms of space,
And the infinity of endless ages,
All, all, will I dispute! And world by world,
And star by star, and universe by universe,
Shall tremble in the balance, till the great
Conflict shall cease, if ever it shall cease,
Which it ne'er shall, till he or I be quenched!
And what can quench our immortality,
Or mutual and irrevocable hate?
He as a conqueror will call the conquered
Evil, but what will be the Good he gives?
Were I the victor, his works would be deemed
The only evil ones. And you, ye new
And scare-born mortals, what have been his gifts
To you already, in your little world?
But few; and some of those but bitter.
Back with me, then, to thine earth, and try the rest
Of his celestial boons to you and yours.
Evil and Good are things in their own essence,
And not made good or evil by the Giver;
But if he gives you good—so call him; if
Evil springs from him, do not name it mine,
Till ye know better its true fount; and judge
Not by words, though of Spirits, but the fruits
Of your existence, such as it must be.
One good gift has the fatal apple given—
Your reason: — let it not be overswayed
By tyrannous threats to force you into faith
'Gainst all external sense and inward feeling:
Think and endure, — and form an inner world
In your own bosom — where the outward fails;
So shall you nearer be the spiritual
Nature, and war triumphant with your own.

From "Cain" by Lord Byron

Answer 2

Examples Of Dramatic Monologue

Answer 3

Dramatic Monologue Examples

Answer 4

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One word... SHAKESPEARE. He has SO much dramatic monologue that it's not even funny. Just it up on wikiquote and you'll find TONES of Shakespearean monologue. And it's great monologue to teach because it's in Shakespearean language which very much differs from our own. I'm sure with a lot of internet at your fingertips, also, if you don't quite understand Shakespearean, you'll be able to research the meaning. From some of Shakespeare's sonnets to his beautiful plays, Shakespeare is the monologue for you. Some of his plays where monologue is deeply entangled in beautifully are: Good old: Romeo and Juliet A great comedy fantasy: A Midsummer Night's Dream Not well known, but FABULOUS: The Tempest Haunting: Hamlet Macbeth (not much else to say) Othello Julius Caesar ("Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears is a GREAT monologue) And basically any others. Shakespeare is the way, and whoever you have to present for will be impressed, I guarantee.

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Need an example of a dramatic monologue!?
Have to give a speech for a dramatic monologue and need some examples. The speech has to last 45 seconds to a minute. Thanks in advance.

Answer 6

Not a comic monologue.

Answer 7

Yeah, you should probabley learn about the difference between comedy and drama before calling yourself an actor.