10 Examples of Monologue about Friendship

A monologue about friendship It is a speech in which a single participant talks to himself or reflects on this relationship of camaraderie, affection and trust.

Unlike dialogue, in the monologue there is only one character who, through statements, questions and answers, seeks to know more about himself, analyze his life, his emotions and his moods or develop a thought about a matter.

The monologues are very frequent in dramatic, poetic and narratives and let the viewers or readers know the psychological characteristics, thoughts and feelings of the characters.

There are three types of monologues:

Examples of monologue about friendship

1. fragment of Lelio or friendshipby Marcus Tullius Cicero. The character reflects on the importance of friendship.

Lelio: I really wouldn't object, if I trusted myself; well, the thing is illustrious, and we are, as Fanio said, idle. But who am I? or what talent is in me? This custom is typical of scholars, and of the Greeks, in such a way that something can be proposed to them about which they dissert, even if it is suddenly; the company is big and needs practice not small. So I think that you ask the things that can be disserted about friendship to those who dedicate those things; I can only exhort you to put friendship before all human things; for nothing is so appropriate to nature, so convenient to things that are either favorable or adverse.

(...) In the first place, how can a life that does not rest on the mutual benevolence of a friend be 'livable', as Enio says? What sweeter than to have with whom you dare to speak all things as well as with yourself? What great fruit would there be in prosperous things, if you had no one to rejoice with them as well as yourself? And it would be difficult to endure the adverse ones without the one who endured them more seriously even than you.

(...) On the one hand, friendship contains many great advantages, on the other it certainly surpasses all of them, because it shines a good hope for the future and does not allow spirits to weaken or decay. For whoever beholds a true friend, he beholds as a portrait of himself.

1. fragment of How should friends be?by Tirso de Molina. The protagonist of this work, Manrique, reflects on the importance of friendship, because he believes that it is better to renounce his love and fidelity to the king than to betray a friend.

Manrique: Don Gastón prisoner, my friend,
Does his estate of his usurp attempt?
baseless chimeras
are; but if in cruel prison
dies, what should I do? Be faithful
and, despite weapons and fear,
Libertalle, and if I can't,
die in prison with him.
Commanded by the King of Aragon;
when the friend is law,
run over life and king.
What does it matter if both are
friends? The duty
that I have the king and his love
it should not tarnish my value
for his attempt to continue,
that it is not a friend who obliges
his friend to be a traitor.
These clear consequences
for safer I choose,
How well said he who said:
«the friend, to the altars».
But alas, soul! don't you repair
What should they give me to Armesinda?
Great prize, there is no doubt,
because if it has to break
friendship just has to be
for love or rowing.
Interest and love calls me;
but, in the end, I am Don Manrique;
I suffer, and do not publish
from me such a case the fame.
I love who my friend loves,
without power my freedom
forget so much beauty;
but torment me and die
my love, as it remains whole
the law of our friendship.

1. fragment of the biggest disappointmentby Tirso de Molina. The character reflects on friendship and betrayal.

Bruno: Who does not fear curses,
reason will be that they reach him;
who trusts friends,
he well deserves to be deceived;
who keeps in glass chests
treasures to be broken,
sow sand, cover in winds,
Trust in games, load in ships:
when your losses feel,
neither complain nor withdraw;
because friends and women
glasses are, not diamonds.
O disappointments of the world!
Cure me your truths,
So experiment on me
the biggest disappointment.
With what eyes will I be able to return
in the eyes of my father,
let my insult not blind them,
that his rigor does not outrage me?
Will I go back to school?
No, that although they may honor me,
As long as I live I will be
if unfortunate constant.
Well, neither in letters, nor in love
I had happiness, condemn myself
I want to war, punishment
of vices and youth.
Farewell, homeland; goodbye, loves;
goodbye, changeable friends;
cruel father, ungrateful house;
interesting women,
that if feats give ventura,
Today I have to venture
and leave an example in me
of the greatest disappointment.

1. fragment of Ajax, by Sophocles. The character reflects on the value of friendship and changes his way of seeing enemies.

Ajax: And we are not going to learn to be prudent? For my part, I have just learned that the enemy should not be hated, but in the idea that we can have him friendship later, and that I will want to help my friend with my favor, in the idea that he does not always have to to be; because for all insecure mortals is the port of friendship.

1. fragment of exiled friendship, by Teodoro Prodromos. The character, Amistad, reflects on the importance of him in people's lives.

Friendship: I, Friendship, urbanize cities,
Although someone says that these cities are cities,
although rather this is the multitude of citizens.
Well baked bricks and heaviness of polished stones
converge thanks to me in the creation of a single wall,
two walls around a single angle
and four angles for a complete dwelling.
I give consistency to the arts among men
and to the carder the friend with the leather;
and with the brake manufacturer to the army chief
and I link the worker with the farmer
and to every craftsman with every craftsman.
Well, really, every fisherman needs a farmer,
for by giving him the fish he receives bread in exchange;
and every farmer, fisherman,
for by giving him the bread he receives the fish in return.
And every craftsman is in need of the other
and hence all the cities are well.

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