Julius Ceasar: Brutus Is the Tragic Hero

In the maneuver Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare, Marcus Brutus is the sadal hero. Brutus is a tragicalal hero be capture he has Tragic Flaws. Brutuss first tragic flaw is that he is green he is not a shrewd reckon of people. As Caius Cassuis states, Well, Brutus, thou art noble. to a greater extentover I see/thy honorable mental may be wrought / there for it is meet / That noble minds keep ever with their standardiseds / For who so firm that cannot be seduced? (1. 2. 319-323). This shows how naive Brutus is because he does not see that Cassuis is nerve-wracking to manipulate him.Brutuss second tragic flaw is that he has rigid moral philosophy he thinks he is unmovable. Brutus states himself that he is armed so strong in in force(p)y, / that they pass by him as the idle wind (4. 3. 75-76). Brutus thinks he is unmovable because he is so honest that nothing can break him down, and because he has these tragic flaws he is a tragic hero. Many tragic heroes are characte rized by good and grievous, and Brutus has good and evil characteristics. Brutuss good character is that he is caring. after(prenominal) Brutus allows his servant Lucius to recreation he calls, boy Lucius Fast a peacefulness? It is no matter. / wonder the honey-heavy dew of slumber // Therefore thou sleepst so sound (2. 1. 240-244). Brutus is letting Lucius sleep and this show his good characteristic, that he is caring. Brutus is also characterized by evil. He is characterized by evil because he betrayed his good friend, Julius Ceasar. When Brutus stabs Ceasar, Ceasars actors line to Brutus were Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Ceasar (3. 1. 84). In this background Ceasar is surprised that Brutus is with the conspirators who murder him, because Brutus was a expectant friend to Ceasar.Brutus betrays their friendship by neat Ceasar. Brutus destructive and evil characteristics make him a tragic hero. Brutus faced a decline, which is an subject that tragic heros face. The hubis, o r the person or thing that cause Brutuss downfall was hybrid Antony and the barbarism he made at Caesars funeral. Caius Cassius knew or had a opinion to not let Antony speech, You retire not what you do, do not consent / That Antony communicate in Ceasars funeral. / know you how much the people may be moved/ By that which he will utter? / / I know not what may fall.I like it not (3. 1. 250 254, 262). Cassius stated that he does not have a good feeling about letting shit Antony speak because he had a feeling that something bad will occur because of what Antony will say. What Cassuis verbalize was true, because shortly after Antonys speech Brutus and Cassius ran away and the Plebeians went into a rage overdue to Antonys speech. This led to the downfall of Brutus. The downfall or the death of Brutus makes him a tragic hero because before he commits suicide, he sees justification/ notoriety in his fall.Brutus says himself my philia doth joy, that yet all my life/ I found no ma n, but he was true to me. / I shall have glory by this losing day/ More that Octavius and Mark Antony (5. 5. 38 41). He sees glory in his death because he realizes that his life wasnt bad, because he had true friends, and that he sees more glory in his suicide than Octavius Ceasar and Mark Antony will see glory in their victory. An because Seo 3 Brutus had many characteristics and events in the play Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare that tragic heroes face, Marcus Brutus is ta tragic hero.