Julius Ceasar: Brutus Is the Tragic Hero

In the play Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare, Marcus Brutus is the sadal hero. Brutus is a tragic hero because he has Tragic Flaws. Brutuss first tragic smirch is that he is naive he is not a shrewd calculate of hoi polloi. As Caius Cassuis states, Well, Brutus, thou art majestic. Yet I escort/thy honest mental may be wrought /There for it is meet / That noble minds keep ever with their likes / 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 trying to manipulate him.Brutuss second tragic flaw is that he has rigid ethics he thinks he is unmovable. Brutus states himself that he is gird so strong in honesty, / that they pass by him as the scant(p) wind (4. 3. 75-76). Brutus thinks he is unmovable because he is so honest that zip fastener can break him down, and because he has these tragic flaws he is a tragic hero. Many tragic heroes are characterized by good and shame, and Brutus has good a nd evil characteristics. Brutuss good character is that he is caring. After Brutus allows his servant Lucius to ease he calls, Boy Lucius Fast a slumber? It is no matter. / Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of tranquillity // 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 champ, Julius Ceasar. When Brutus stabs Ceasar, Ceasars words to Brutus were Et tu, Brute? wherefore fall, Ceasar (3. 1. 84). In this scene Ceasar is surprised that Brutus is with the conspirators who murder him, because Brutus was a great friend to Ceasar.Brutus betrays their friendship by stabbing Ceasar. Brutus bad and evil characteristics make him a tragic hero. Brutus faced a spill, which is an event that tragic heros face. The hubis, or the person or thing that cause Brutuss downfall was Mark Antony and the speech he made at Caes ars funeral. Caius Cassius knew or had a intuitive intuitive feeling to not let Antony speech, You know not what you do, do not consent / That Antony speak in Ceasars funeral. / know you how much the people may be moved/ By that which he will expose? / / 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 Mark Antony speak because he had a feeling that something bad will occur because of what Antony will say. What Cassuis said was true, because shortly afterward Antonys speech Brutus and Cassius ran away and the Plebeians went into a rage due 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/glory in his fall.Brutus says himself my heart doth joy, that yet all my life/ I found no man, 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.