Caesar - Hello reporter, Caesar is doing quite well.
Reporter - I am glad to hear that. I have a few questions that I would wish you would answer for me.
Caesar - �If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; but I am constant as the northern star, of whose true-fix�d and resting quality there is no fellow in the firmament.� But I suppose that, for you-since Caesar has no political power anymore, Caesar could answer a few questions for you.
Reporter - Thank you for obliging. Here we go: What were your motives to gain power? Were you truly ambitious?
Caesar - Caesar was very strong-willed and motivated through himself. Caesar could have accomplished many things if he had not been murdered. Personally, yes, Caesar was ambitious. Each time Antony offered me, Caesar, the crown, each time it was harder to refuse. The reason it was refused was because I did not was to seem too ambitious; I wanted to wait for the crown until a better, more appropriate time.
Reporter - That is very interesting Caesar. I have another question for you: What were you thinking when you discovered that Brutus had been a part of your murder?
Caesar - What was Caesar thinking? I, Caesar, was very surprised. Caesar would expect someone like the power-hungry Cassius to do something like that, but not my best-friend Brutus, of whom I loved!
Reporter - Yes, yes I can see what you mean. Ok, one last question: If you could change an occurrence in your past that would have helped you in the future, what would you choose?
Caesar - Ay, that �tis a difficult question. Caesar would chosen to have listened to my wife, Calpurnia, and taken her dream a bit more seriously. Caesar is aware that, now, women have a fairly high social standing, no?
Reporter - Yes, you are right. Women have as much power as men do now.
Caesar - That shocks Caesar; if Caesar had lived during this period in time, Caesar would have listened to Calpurnia, but because Decius manipulated and taunted Caesar into going, Caesar was fearful that he would not be offered the crown and be called a coward.
Reporter - Well thank you Caesar, for answering those questions for me.
After playing the part of Caesar and the interviewer, I came to realize how different it was, back in
the ancient days of Rome. Women were not respected at all. Men lived for power, and dreaded the
day that someone would call them a coward. Interviewing Caesar made me realize how much of an
act that he actually had to put on during his lifetime. Political people have to fear being called a
coward much more than an average person would. The main reason that Caesar went to the capitol
the day he died, was for fear of what the other Romans would think of him; not because he truly
wanted to. In this interview, I feel that I did a fairly well-done job in creating the character of
Caesar. I was sure to have Caesar have no respect for the interviewer, because obviously it was a
woman. And secondly, I had Caesar always refer to himself in third-person. In the beginning, I had
taken a quote out of "Julius Caesar" for Caesar to say as if he were going to refuse the reporter when
she asked Caesar to answer some questions.