When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman – just from hand to mouth. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as your else I pretended to, I am really not quite sure which –I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other. And when I came to live with you – I mean that I was simply transferred from papa's hands into yours. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls. When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. Nora reflects her discovery in the play's pivotal monologue. In the final act, the secret is revealed - and Torvald's lack of love for her is plainly revealed. Nora from Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House spends nearly the entire play keeping a huge secret from her husband, Torvald. It also sets the tone for the comedy to come later in the play. Shakespeare's language establishes the whimsy and merriment of Puck's character. Then slip I from her bum, down topples she,Īnd “Tailor!” cries, and falls into a cough,Īnd then the whole quire hold their hips and laugh,Īnd waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and swear Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me. "Thou speak'st aright Īnd when she drinks, against her lips I bob When another fairy identifies him as Robin Goodfellow (his alter ego), he agrees and elaborates in a lofty monologue. Puck, the mischievous fairy from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, is delighted to talk about himself. It reveals the traits that Polonius values and Laertes must uphold, and it marks the last time Laertes will see his father alive. Like most important literary monologues, this speech is important in both content and timing. This above all: to thine ownself be true,Īnd it must follow, as the night the day,įarewell: my blessing season this in thee!" Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.īut not express’d in fancy rich, not gaudy Īnd they in France of the best rank and stationĪre of a most select and generous chief in that.įor loan oft loses both itself and friend,Īnd borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Bewareīear’t that the opposed may beware of thee. Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel īut do not dull thy palm with entertainment Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Give thy thoughts no tongue,īe thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail,Īnd you are stay’d for. "Yet here, Laertes! aboard, aboard, for shame! Here, he gives advice for how Laertes should conduct himself overseas. A monologue involves one character speaking to another.Ī better example of a monologue is Polonius' speech to his son, Laertes, before Laertes goes to France. But this speech is actually a soliloquy - a speech of internal dialogue in which the character (in this case, Hamlet) expresses his inner thoughts to the audience. When you think of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the title character's famous "To be or not to be" speech may come to mind as a prominent monologue.
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