Shakespeare 2.0 Benjamin Franklin is a wannabe actor always hungry for another show fix. In his autobiography, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, he is putting on a magniloquent show for his audience. Franklin assumes certain characteristics (which he does allude to doing within the first few pages) in order to become the perfect man in the eyes of the reader. When discussing his list of virtues on page sixty-seven, Franklin quotes Addison’s Cato, Cicero, Proverbs of Solomon and Thomoson’s Poems. Then precedes to write his own prayer to a “powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide!” (67). However, Franklin is a deist and has no belief in a God who works into the fabric of everyday life. Benjamin Franklin only writes the prayer
