Monday, August 31, 2015

What is an example of soliloquy?Preferably from The Crucible, The Great Gatsby, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Twilight Saga, To Kill A...

In the Crucible, at the end of Act 2, John Proctor faces
the open sky and declares:


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"Peace. It is a providence, and no great change;
we are only what we always were, but naked now. . . Aye, naked! And the wind, God's icy
wind will blow!"



This is an
example of a soliloquy. A Soliloquy is an audible oratory or conversation with oneself.
It is a term that is typically applied to theatrical characters engaged in a monologue.
But it can also be used as a term in a literary work that simply describes an occurrence
when a character talks with oneself. The soliloquy helps in the realization by the
character of certain things that may not have been realized if he had not verbalized
aloud.

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