What distinguishes a "soliloquy" from other types of monologues?

♦ Soliloquy:
- A dramatic technique of speaking alone on stage.
- A long, usually serious spoken discourse that a character i play delivers to an audience and that reveals the character's thoughts.
- A passage in a drama in which a character expresses his thoughts or feelings aloud while either alone upon the stage or with the other actors keeping silent.
- It is a dramatic technique of exposing to the audience the intentions, thoughts and feelings of a character who speaks to himself.

- When a speaker speaks his thoughts aloud it is called Soliloquy.
- নাটকের কোন চরিত্র যখন নিজেই নিজের সাথে কথা বলে তার মনের ভাব প্রকাশ এবং অন্যরা নীরব থাকে, তখন তাকে Soliloquy বলে।
- Example: To be or not to be soliloquy in Hamlet by Shakespeare.

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