My Take on This Week's Monologues

Hello Everyone!

This past week, during my public speaking class, we were working on presenting monologues. We had to find a monologue, memorize it, and then present it to the whole class with diction and articulation, and all those things I talked about in my previous blog post. We had to post ours on our blogs so if you want to see it, scroll down a little more (after you finish reading). Everyone had to listen to everyone else's and give feedback and I think that giving feedback to others and received others' feedback really helped my performance. Personally, I chose a monologue from the movie Ratatouille, when the critic tastes foods and writes a review about it the next day.

One monologue that I particularly liked was that of My. Her monologue was about a woman who had turned to hurting people because of how the ones that she cared about the most didn't care about her in the same way. My really got into the character of this woman who didn't want to be evil. Her expressions and the words she emphasized were perfect for her character. Another thing I liked was that she stepped forward one step for each person that she killed. She kept my attention throughout her monologue because of the fact that she embodied the character so much. You could tell that she really memorized the lines and understood how to speak them effectively. In conclusion, what makes a monologue successful is that the speaker has to really understand the person who they are trying to speak as and deliver their monologue with clearly and fluently.

On the other hand, my monologue wasn't as good as My's, but I believe that it was successful. I memorized most of the lines, even if I needed someone to start the sentence. One thing I believe I did well was that, the words I did remember were clear and easy to understand because of my good diction and articulation. Most words were pronounced clearly and sharply. One thing that I thought I should, improve on is that I thought that I could add more emotion to the piece especially towards the end when the speaker is so impressed with the food. I think that one thing that I improved on during the learning process was the spacing and pausing of the words and the sentences. This helped the audience be able to understand me better. If I had had more time, I would have definitely worked on adding more emotion to parts that needed it. The act of a critic was hard for me to embody and really represent.

Thanks for reading and see you next week!