![]() ![]() In the course of speaking, the character - usually alone on stage - arrives at a revelation about him or herself that wasn’t previously clear. The soliloquy, a speech that reveals the innermost thoughts of a character in a play, is not so much an expression of what the character knows, as a discovery of what he or she thinks. ![]() In a monologue, the speaker is talking to the audience. In a soliloquy, the speaker is talking to him or herself. The difference between these two literary and theatrical devices, however, is not who is speaking, but rather, who is listening. Soliloquies and monologues are both spoken by a single person.
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