Do you know any good monologues from literature?

Question

I need a good monologue from a novel. If any one knows a good one, please let me know. I am desperate.

Answer 1

The Shakespeare take-off in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is a hoot! I prefer it to the Shakespeare. By the way, Shakespeare has about 50 great monologues.

Answer 2

On the path less taken . . . I might suggest something from classic Brazilian author, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis. His book Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (which is sometimes translated into English as Epitaph for a Small Winner ), is a series of witty little monologues about a variety of subjects as the protagonist - a recently deceased individual - recounts his life .... such topics as meditation and the purpose of the nose throughout the history of civilization, or debating about the nature of clothing and its function in promoting desire.

Interesting and humorous.

Answer 3

The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner

And stop it with Shakespeare. The man said clearly that he needed a piece from a novel!

Answer 4

What about doing something from Dracula? 99% of the book is composed of journal entries and letters, so it's great monologue material.

Answer 5

Research Robert Benchley. He is kind of an old school author, but he is a humorist and should make your teacher laugh or at least giggle a bit.
Might be good for a high grade.

Answer 6

Try the first page of A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick--where the guy is trying to wash bugs out of his hair (it is about drugs though, if that's tabu).

Answer 7

You can't go wrong with Shakespeare. Try King Lear or Hamlet.