Lesson 4 Speech
Lesson 4: Script for a Speech
Write a brief monologue (two minutes) in the "voice" of one of these four characters or people (Agamemnon, Hamlet, Prufrock, or John Kennedy). In the monologue, identify what you hope people learn from hearing “your” story. Include reference to your struggles and what can be learned from them. Remember that a monologue is written as if you are the person speaking, using the first person pronoun “I.” In your monologue you must make a connection to at least two of the other characters. How were they like you or different in their discoveries of what you hope people learn?
Hamlet:
I have gone through a lot of things in my life. Many people would not believe so, as I am a pretty blessed child with my father the king, my mother the queen, and me of course, the prince. My life really started to go downhill when my father passed away. Wait, he did not just “pass away”, he got murdered. By my uncle. Why you may ask? Well I’m not too sure. It probably had to do with the fact that now, after two months, my mother married him. He wanted the throne and to rule the town. I wanted revenge, and that is all I wanted. I started seeing ghosts and that started frightening me. I thought I was going insane. The ghost, who ended up being my father, told me to kill my uncle, to get the revenge I strived for. But I couldn’t. I wanted to be very cautious. I wasn’t really that type of person that goes around murdering people! Eventually I started to be abusive to my mother. I really regret that. But I was so mad at her for getting married to the one that killed her own husband! At this point, I accidently murdered my girlfriend’s dad, thinking that it was my disgusting brother. I realized that I was now the murderer that I never wanted to be. Her brother, of course got mad, and my uncle tried to convince him to kill me! We fought, and I thought it would be the winner. Little did I know, my uncles sword was laced with poison, and if it touched me, I’d die. I
Write a brief monologue (two minutes) in the "voice" of one of these four characters or people (Agamemnon, Hamlet, Prufrock, or John Kennedy). In the monologue, identify what you hope people learn from hearing “your” story. Include reference to your struggles and what can be learned from them. Remember that a monologue is written as if you are the person speaking, using the first person pronoun “I.” In your monologue you must make a connection to at least two of the other characters. How were they like you or different in their discoveries of what you hope people learn?
Hamlet:
I have gone through a lot of things in my life. Many people would not believe so, as I am a pretty blessed child with my father the king, my mother the queen, and me of course, the prince. My life really started to go downhill when my father passed away. Wait, he did not just “pass away”, he got murdered. By my uncle. Why you may ask? Well I’m not too sure. It probably had to do with the fact that now, after two months, my mother married him. He wanted the throne and to rule the town. I wanted revenge, and that is all I wanted. I started seeing ghosts and that started frightening me. I thought I was going insane. The ghost, who ended up being my father, told me to kill my uncle, to get the revenge I strived for. But I couldn’t. I wanted to be very cautious. I wasn’t really that type of person that goes around murdering people! Eventually I started to be abusive to my mother. I really regret that. But I was so mad at her for getting married to the one that killed her own husband! At this point, I accidently murdered my girlfriend’s dad, thinking that it was my disgusting brother. I realized that I was now the murderer that I never wanted to be. Her brother, of course got mad, and my uncle tried to convince him to kill me! We fought, and I thought it would be the winner. Little did I know, my uncles sword was laced with poison, and if it touched me, I’d die. I