Soliloquy vs. Monologue: What’s the Difference?
A monologue might be delivered to an audience within a play or story or it might be delivered directly to the audience sitting in the theater and watching the play or reading the book, etc.
But a soliloquy is a speech that one gives to oneself.
The difference between soliloquies and monologues is that other characters don’t hear soliloquies. Technically, a soliloquy is a type of monologue.
➪SOLILOQUY: Basically its a long speech a character makes to him or herself. A soliloquy is a long speech spoken by a single character not intended to be heard by any other character (plays in particular). In the rare cases where someone else is on stage during a soliloquy, the audience should suspend disbelief. Effectively, time stops in the action of the play, because the soliloquy articulates thoughts that might flash through a person’s head in the span of a few seconds. This can be adopted for writing too. Eg:
From Romeo and Juliet-Juliet speaks her thoughts aloud when she learns that Romeo is the son of her family's enemy: O Romeo, Romeo!
➪MONOLOGUE: A monologue is a speech spoken by a single character but addressed to the other characters on stage (or on screen). A monologue involves one character speaking to another.
When a character is talking to themselves in an internal monologue (sometimes called “interior monologue”) rather than talking to another character, it’s often further defined as a “soliloquy.”
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