Personal Monologue In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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A personal monologue is when an actor speaks alone and says a personal story that relates to the scene that is about to happen. The director’s decision to add in the actor’s personal monologues was important because it required the audience to connect the topics of the monologues to the play. It also required the audience to connect the play to real life experiences and to match the actor’s personality to the characters. Firstly, in To KIll a Mockingbird, The personal monologues of the actors were related to specific scenes in the play. For example, before the scene where the neighbors were telling Scout about the Radley family, Rachael Warren, who was playing Miss Maudie “broke character” and told the audience her personal story. Her personal story was about how her son has down syndrome and about how people looked at him differently and judged him without trying to get to know him. Rachael Warren’s story related to the scene that followed after her personal monologue because in the scene after the monologue, Scout’s neighbors told Scout false information about the Radley family, which made Scout view the Radleys as her creepy, mysterious, …show more content…

Adding the personal monologues was going to give the audience not only a chance to connect the play to the book but also a chance to connect the book to real life challenges that people face. One actor named Alexis Green, who played Mayella Ewell, told the audience a story about how she was a virgin dating someone at age 20 and that the guy she was dating broke up with her because he “did not want to take her virginity” from her. Green told the audience that she felt heartbroken but that then she realized “...I’ve never really offered it to you,..” Alexis Green’s monologue related to Mayella Ewell accusing Tom Robinson of rape because Tom Robinson was made as a sexual being just like Alexis Green so people believed that he did infact rape

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