In her most famous work The Bell Jar, she uses the analogy of fig trees to showcase a classic symptom of depression, which is the inability of the person suffering from depression to make decisions and the low mood they feel all the time, as well as the hopelessness about the future. Depression monologues are pieces in the literature that one person speaks, and their content is sad and tends to feature symptoms of Depression-like not wanting to eat or sleep. You’re never too old to hide under the covers. Wrapping yourself up into a cocoon. Hoping that when you emerge life will be butterflies again.

So I love you. I love you and I can’t stop and it absolutely ***** because you don’t feel the same way for me. I know even if you did we’d never work out and yet if you sat me down and tried to convince me of all the reasons we would always be wrong for each other and never right, I wouldn’t be able to stop. The monologue focuses on the narrator’s experience of depression. She is in a grave, isolated from the beautiful world. She wants someone to hold her hands and take her our of this cage. She wants to be stronger and hopeful. Conclusion In the female drama monologue, MISPLACED, M explains the effects of what she experiences when she feels disconnected from life and herself.

Moving past the opening and getting into the heart of the monologue, use storytelling techniques, such as figurative language and repetition, to keep listeners interested as the character progresses through their monologue. Build listeners up to a climax, the thesis of the character’s monologue, just like a good story brings readers to a climactic scene. 6 These monologues about depression are great for competitions and for journals and essays, or for any comparative study of the representation of Depression in literature. Depression Monologue by Sylvia Plath

A dramatic monologue is a poem written as a speech. Like other kinds of monologues, a dramatic monologue reveals its speaker’s inner thoughts and feelings about their situation, indirectly revealing their character through these thoughts. Other types of monologuesA pause] I can understand how the poor child feels. She lives here in this desperate loneliness with no one around her except these colourless shadows that go mooning about talking nonsense and knowing nothing except that they eat, drink, and sleep. Among them appears from time to time this Dr. Astroff, so different, so handsome, so interesting, so charming. It is like seeing the moon rise on a dark night. Oh, to surrender oneself to his embrace! To lose oneself in his arms! I am a little in love with him myself! Yes, I am lonely without him, and when I think of him I smile. That Uncle Vanya says I have the blood of a Nixey in my veins: “Give rein to your nature for once in your life!” Perhaps it is right that I should. Oh, to be free as a bird, to fly away from all your sleepy faces and your talk and forget that you have existed at all! But I am a coward, I am afraid; my conscience torments me. He comes here every day now. I can guess why, and feel guilty already; I should like to fall on my knees at Sonia’s feet and beg her forgiveness, and weep. In this short monologue, Bella confronts her mother about their relationship, as her emotions shift from anger to exasperation to desperation. This emotional complexity is a great showcase of range for self-tapes, casting calls, and open auditions. BELLA I had a therapist once who said that these states will wax and wane. Which gave my mother relief, because it meant that in the bad times, there would be good times. But it also gave her anxiety because it meant that in the good times, there would be bad times. It always confused me, because I didn't really know what it meant. But it did sound a lot calmer than the way I would describe it. Granted, I didn't realize until later what waxing and waning implied. That these feelings were fixed and constant and would never end for the rest of my life. DETAILS: drama/teen/comedy, male (female), apologetic, hopeful, second chance, crime, around 2 minutes

This depression monologue is from a play called The Darkness, and it describes well how someone with depression might feel about being lost in their negative thoughts.Monologues are structured like stories so that listeners or readers understand exactly what’s happening. A storylike structure, starting with a strong hook and building up to a climax, draws listeners in and prevents the monologue from feeling monotonous, and by extension, it keeps the character from feeling flat and boring. What are the different types of monologues? Soliloquy These monologues contain a romanticized, tortured version of depression that gives us a peek into some of the most troubled minds in literature. It steamrolled me completely out of nowhere and I didn’t see it coming. It was the worst and best thing that ever happened to me because it was beautiful to feel so deeply for someone and not feel any fear to let myself fall. For my best friend, someone I could spend hours talking to. At some point this person had shifted her life in a different direction and hasn’t felt the same since. Do you really know how this feels? Do you really know how this grips me inside and threatens to rip me apart? Do you know the weight that holds me down, a weight so powerful I can hardly move.”

This monologue about depression talks about two things, the depression the person felt before they met the person they love so much, and how the person healed them.I am going to be married. Yes–again–and as soon as possible–to Vivien. I love her. She loves me. Then why should I be at this moment aching to kiss you? Tell me that? It is absolutely insane! It’s preposterous! It’s contradictory! Yes! I’m sure that I never would commit the rashness of matrimony again without being in love. Very much in love. And I’m equally sure that I would not stand here and tell you what a fool I am about you, if that weren’t true. Do you think I want to be this way? It’s too ridiculous–I didn’t want to tell you. I wanted to go. You made me stay. Well, now you know what a blithering lunatic I am. Do you really know how this feels? Do you really know how this grips me inside and threatens to rip me apart? Do you know the weight that holds me down, a weight so powerful I can hardly move. The engagement was settled on the 14th of February last. Worn out by your entire ignorance of my existence, I determined to end the matter one way or the other, and after a long struggle with myself I accepted you under this dear old tree here. The next day I bought this little ring in your name, and this is the little bangle with the true lovers’ knot I promised you always to wear. DETAILS: Comedy/teen, stylized, period piece, 18th century/1700s, Jane Austen, hating-your-fiance, marriage for money, loveless marriage, engagement, female, around 1.5 minutes