What is an example of a monologue in Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

There are several monologues! Mono means 1 so anytime you come across someone speaking for a long period of time without interruption that is probably a monologue. some examples of monologues would be:

Romeo, when he is about to kill himself

Juliet, drinking the potion

Nurse, talking about days when Juliet was young

Prince, speaking of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet

Friar Lawrence, as he is gathering herbs

and tons more!

Answer 2

It is a paradox, a seemingly contradictory statement that upon further reflection, has a deeper, symbolic meaning. In this case, the line emphasizes the theme of appearance vs. reality, as Macbeth is a play about sight/seeing as well as not seeing people or situations as who/what they truly are.

Answer 3

Just one off the top of my head

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incarnadine,

Making the green one red." from Act 2, scene 2

Answer 4

Romeo and Juliet (and Shakespeare in general) is full of monologues because it was typical of that time in theatre. I don't have a copy of the play myself, but after a quick Google:

JULIET: Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?

Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name

When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?

But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?

That villain cousin would have killed my husband.

Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring!

Your tributary drops belong to woe,

Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy.

My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;

And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband.

All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?

Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,

That murd'red me. I would forget it fain;

But O, it presses to my memory

Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds!

'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banishèd!'

That 'banishèd,' that one word 'banishèd,'

Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death

Was woe enough, if it had ended there;

Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship

And needly will be ranked with other griefs,

Why followèd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,'

Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both,

Which modern lamentation might have moved?

But with a rearward following Tybalt's death,

'Romeo is banishèd'--to speak that word

Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,

All slain, all dead. 'Romeo is banishèd'--

There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,

In that word's death; no words can that woe sound.

MERCUTIO: O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes

In shape no bigger than an agate stone

On the forefinger of an alderman,

Drawn with a team of little atomies

Over men's noses as they lie asleep;

Her wagon spokes made of long spinners' legs,

The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;

Her traces, of the smallest spider web;

Her collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry beams;

Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film;

Her wagoner, a small grey-coated gnat,

Not half so big as a round little worm

Pricked from the lazy finger of a maid;

Her chariot is an empty hazelnut,

Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,

Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers.

And in this state she gallops night by night

Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love;

O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on curtsies straight;

O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees;

O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses dream,

Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues,

Because their breaths with sweetmeats tainted are.

Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose,

And then dreams he of smelling out a suit;

And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's tail

Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep,

Then dreams he of another benefice.

Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,

And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,

Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,

Of healths five fathom deep; and then anon

Drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes,

And being thus frighted, swears a prayer or two

And sleeps again. This is that very Mab

That plats the manes of horses in the night

And bakes the elflocks in foul sluttish hairs,

Which once untangled much misfortune bodes.

This is the hag, when maids lie on their backs,

That presses them and learns them first to bear,

Making them women of good carriage.

This is she!

Honestly, open the script to any page and you'll probably find a monologue. Monologues don't have to address the audience, but they are the dialogue of one person. Typically, they illustrate the thoughts of the speaker, or tell a story.

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Answer 5

Macbeth has a bunch of soliloquys: "This supernatural soliciting cannot be good" (Act 1 Scene 3), "The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down." (Act 1 Scene 4), "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly" (Act 1 Scene 7), "Is this a dagger which I say before me" (Act 2, Scene 1), "To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus" (Act 3 Scene 1), "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day" (Act 5 Scene 5), "They have tied me to the stake, I cannot flee" (Act 5 Scene 7) and others.
"Life is but a walking shadow"

Answer 6

Dramatic Irony is essentially anything we as readers know that the characters in the story do not.

One example of dramatic irony could be the case of Lady Macbeth's 'illness'. While the characters in the scene (ie. The doctor and the nurse) initially cannot figure out the true meaning behind her seemingly entranced rituals (excessive hand washing, for example), we as readers understand that it's because she is trying to wash her hands clean of King Duncan's blood.

You could also use the battle scene(s) as an example. We know Malcolm's battle strategies to ambush Macbeth while Macbeth knows nothing of it.

There are many examples in Act V that you could use, but these are only two examples.

Answer 7

Macbeth starts out heroic and ends up evil, whereas the thane of Cawdor starts out evil and dies somewhat heroically. Macbeth starts out with a conscience and Lady Macbeth without one. By the end of the play, they trade places. Even the phrase "fair is foul and foul is fair" has parallel structure.

Answer 8

"If it were done when 'tis done, it were well it were done quickly" from Act 1 Scene 7

Answer 9

"fair is foul and foul is fair"

Answer 10

Mercutio's Queen Mab speech.