Disclaimer: Shakespeare can keep Caesar, honestly. I've had enough of it for the moment, what with all the tests and quotes. This soliloquy, on the other hand, belongs to myself. Please do not steal.
Basic Facts:
This was an English assignment from last year. Yeah, I'm not creative or dedicated enough to sit down and do this without it being assigned.
We had to write a soliloquy for a character that had to be placed at the end of Act I, I think it was.
The character I chose was Julius Caesar himself, and I followed Shakespeare's unrhymed iambic pentameter scheme or whatever it's called, and also used a few Shakespearean expressions or words.
Caesar's Soliloquy
Why must my mind be so denied of peace?
Hath not I continuously claiméd
I do not entertain superstitions?
Thus it would remain, if these prodigies
Were but the visions seen by another,
And the warnings of my augurers for
One who doth not decide the fate of Rome.
If I were but a lesser man and not
Caesar, these events might control my mind.
They hath surprised me, I will so admit,
But I am still Caesar, and no dream can
Dictate my actions for the general.
These prodigies art but a nuisance which
Compare to that shrewd knave known as Cassius.
Like a Judas he plots behind my back,
And were I any man besides myself,
Perhaps his countenance would frighten me.
The vicious predator within him may
Strike at any given moment, yet I
Refuse to fall prey to a mere cat when
Ferocious lions bow down before me.
I shall pay him no heed, for if truly
The ides of March my end are to become,
As a soothsayer hath sometime foretold,
I will march forth to meet it, unafraid
Whence it may come from, for I am Caesar.
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