Examples Of Flaws In Julius Caesar

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Flaws, of all shorts can help see the greatest people look weak and pathetic when noticed in the tale of Julius Caesar. Comparing mere mortals to one another is mankind's only way to show difference in one’s strength and artifice. The flaw of Cassius, Brutus, and the great Caesar seems to be hilarious in their common demise to blind themselves which may look depressing to others as if they were useless beings.

A failure in duty, Cassius, was once a great consul man who fears Caesar’s clairvoyant power until succeeded to kill Caesar with the same knife that which he used to kill himself for failing. In Act five of scene three his last words, “ Caesar has now been revenged by the very sword that killed him”. Superficial as it was caused by his lack in himself; when he had the chance to kill Mark Antony who was the only threat left caused his death. Going back to the start after Caesar’s death in Act two of scene one,” suggests that they would do well to kill Antony in addition to Caesar”. With the idea rejected by Brutus proves horribly wrong towards them as Antony not only started a fight against them but won the battle. A huge flaw in their plans which is
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Still many not know that he had a perpetuate illness that made weak as a major flaw out of the two. With all his glory, good looks, great speech, and power was worth nothing compared to what's next. In Act two tells us Caesar was cocky and made himself open to die; which looks to be the biggest blunder in his life . Too late though because the senate stabbed him thirteen times making him die from one of those blows. Seriously though inklings were all over and it could have been prevented, but oh no he ignored as his number one flaw as an arrogant king. A great tyrant, who exhilarate people, wasn’t the brightest of all in the end as power overwhelms is his

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