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The Merchant Of Jew Monologue Analysis

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Entry 1 I chose this monologue because I thought it was the touching last words of Catherine after she went through her journey. Everything that happened in the play led up to this monologue. Once I chose this monologue, the struggle that I had was to memorize the monologue and understand what Catherine get across through the audience with her monologue. I understood that Catherine was strong and passionate. So, I wanted to convey that through the monologue. But I didn’t know why she kept on mentioning time. Was it because she worked at the Radium Dial factory painting watches? Also, since this monologue was so long. It was hard for me be off book especially since I was also memorizing a different play as well. Entry 2 I still had trouble memorizing the line. What I did to memorize the lines was break the lines into four sections. After I fully memorize a section, I …show more content…

I had determined my point of focus. When I practice looking at multiple points of focus, I thought it awkward. I also had problems with my body. I didn’t know how I should position myself. This made me really frustrated because I felt stiff and unnatural. Entry 4 I decided that I would open my body to show Catherine’s passion throughout the monologue. I did that my using my hands to open up my body. My tried to minimize the use of my legs, I only use them to move forward throughout the monologue. After I did that, I drew my attention to my voice. I knew once I chose this monologue that I wanted to display Catherine’s strength and passion though my voice in this monologue. The only way I thought of to do this is to speak loudly with energy or liveliness and to speak slowly so that every word was clearly brought to the audience. Speaking slowly was easy for me. But speaking loudly was not. I had to practice the vocal a lot of times before I felt that it was what I accurately wanted to

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