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Writing a Monologue, famous
works of play-writer William
Shakespeare

By Samartha M 8B
Monologue
● A Monologue means a long speech by one person in a play,
the uttering of articulate sounds or words.
● Eg: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, etc.
● William Shakespeare was one of the most famous
play-writers.
Monologue V/S Dialogue
Monologue
Dialogue
● Speech given by a
● It refers to a
character to express
conversation between
his thoughts and
two or more characters
feelings to other
in a work of literature.
characters or the
● Dialogue involves two or
audience.
more characters.
● Involves only one
character.
About the Play
Play name : The Tempest
Character : Ariel
Genre : Comedy
Gender : Male
Themes : Power, Rivalry, Misfortune
Category : Classical
Play Synopsis
● King Alonso sails home for Italy with his entourage after
attending his daughter's wedding in Africa.
● They sail into a huge storm, and everyone jumps overboard as
the ship gets tossed.
● They wash ashore on a strange island inhabited by a powerful
magician named Prospero who was the cause of the storm,
and his daughter Miranda.
Play Synopsis (Continued)
● Prospero and Miranda live in a cave on the island which is also
inhabited a sprite named Ariel and the monstrous Caliban.
● It is revealed that Alonso was partly to blame for Prospero
losing his dukedom and Alonso now fears his son, Ferdinand,
was lost in the storm, though he is not.
● Various plots against the main characters fail thanks to the
magic of Prospero.
● The play ends with all the plotters repenting the Tempest is
calmed.
Ariel’s Monologue
You are three men of sin, whom Destiny,

That hath to instrument this lower world

And what is in't, the never-surfeited sea

Hath caused to belch up you; and on this island

Where man doth not inhabit; you 'mongst men

Being most unfit to live. I have made you mad;

And even with such-like valour men hang and drown

Their proper selves.

(ALONSO, SEBASTIAN &c. draw their swords)

You fools! I and my fellows

Are ministers of Fate: the elements,

Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well

Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs

Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish

One dowle that's in my plume: my fellow-ministers

Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt,

Your swords are now too massy for your strengths

And will not be uplifted. But remember

For that's my business to you that you three

From Milan did supplant good Prospero;

Exposed unto the sea, which hath requit it,

Him and his innocent child: for which foul deed

The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have

Incensed the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,

Against your peace. Thee of thy son, Alonso,

They have bereft; and do pronounce by me:

Lingering perdition, worse than any death

Can be at once, shall step by step attend

You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from

Which here, in this most desolate isle, else falls

Upon your heads is nothing but heart-sorrow

And a clear life ensuing.

Scene Synopsis
The shipwrecked sailors find a
magical feast laid before them,
but before any can enjoy Ariel, a
spirit, appears as a Harpy to
wreak havoc on those who bear
evil towards Prospero.
Thank You