Original Soliloquy -- Beatrice Prior

After Choosing Ceremony. Enter Beatrice alone in her room.

Divergent? I can't be. This test was supposed to tell me what to choose.
Abnegation, Dauntless, and Erudite, but what if I choose wrong?
What if I make the wrong mistake?
Abnegation as an outsider seems beautiful, simplistic and easy;
Living in Abnegation is the difficult choice for me.
I don't belong there and it never felt right,
But my family, I can't abandon them.  [Looks out the window]. 
Everything is so plain here, so simple,
I know other factions don't get it, but I do.
Our same houses, haircuts, styles;
They protect us from greed, envy, forms of selfishness.
We are all equal, we are all the same, selfless.
I try to love this life.
[Picks up a picture of her father]. I know I could never choose Erudite,
Even though the tests said I could.
My father says that they value knowledge above all,
This makes them thirsty for power.
My father says this leads people to dark and empty places,
I am my father's daughter.
Now Dauntless, they are free and brave, putting courage above everything.
I remember watching them hop onto moving trains and climbing up the sides of buildings;
It's like they never had a care in the world.
They are crazy, but free.
I could see myself living like that.
All I have to do now is choose.
My decision could be simple;
It will take a great act of selflessness to choose Abnegation,
But a great act of courage to choose Dauntless.
Picking one faction over the other will show where I belong;
Faction before blood.
Tomorrow it will come time for these two sides to fight inside me,
But only one will win.

She exits. 

Factions