Monologue by Basil Hallward from The Picture of Dorian Gray

I have to write a monologue from the character Basil Hallward's point of view.
My teacher strongly suggested that we do the scene where he is about to confront Dorian Gray about wanting his portrait back.
She said that our monologue would be what goes through Basil's head as he is sitting there while waiting for Dorian to come home.

We would need to grasp the writing style as the authos - Oscar Wilde and no modern terms should be present in the monologue of course.

The word limit is between 600-800 words. It is an in-class exam thing and it's due next Wednesday (7th August 2011).
We only got our task sheet last Friday and I really need help with this as the whole next week is just block exams starting from Tuesday through to Friday.

We are not allowed to take the novel into the exam room however a 100word planning sheet is allowed.

Thanks for helping me!

Well, we cannot write your essay for you! Have you read it yet? If you read at least some of the book, particularly the part the teacher mentioned, you'll get a feel for the type of language used. Try writing what you think was going through his mind, then send it back to us here to help you edit and to offer advise.

Good luck, and once you start, you'll see it won't be so hard.

:)

You must have meant sept 7th, not Aug 7th. That means I am to late to help!
But I wanted to share a good strategy for things like this. In order to prepare to write a monologue as a character from a story, skim through the story and make a list of memorable words and phrases that character uses!!!

Then, when you have the list, you can use it in the same way you might use a list of vocab words that your teacher wants you to use in a sentence.

My borrowing the character's vocabulary, you can do this sort of thing in an impressive way.