How Is Brutus A Tragic Hero

The nobel Marcus Brutus from The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, is the tragic hero. Brutus suffers a catastrophe when he has to decide to stay loyal to his country or to stay loyal to his friend, Julius Caesar. Brutus thought he was doing the right thing for Rome, but that is not what everyone else thought. Some of the Romans thought that Caesar was a noble man who deserved to rule Rome. Brutus’ actions affect all the people of Rome, and cause many problems between them.. The things Brutus and the conspirators do made some of the Romans relieved and happy, but others were devastated.
Brutus comes from a noble family. His uncle, Lucius Junius Brutus, overthrew the government of tyrannical kings, and started a democracy. Cassius …show more content…
By saying that, Cassius reminded Brutus that he is noble and the people of Rome look up to, not only Caesar, but him as well. He made Brutus aware of how much he meant to Rome and that some of the people wanted him as a leader too. His tragic flaw is poor judgement, and he is easily manipulated into doing things that might not be right. When he made his decision to kill Caesar he did not really want to do it, but the conspirators quickly and easily changed his mind. The people of Rome were shocked when Brutus and the conspirators took action and killed Caesar. They were all affected by his actions, and he became a tragic hero, “a tragic hero is a person of noble birth with heroic or potentially heroic qualities, this person is fated by the Gods or by some supernatural force to doom and destruction or at least to great suffering, but the hero struggles against this fate and this conflict to win our admiration.” Brutus killed Caesar because he thought that was the right thing to do for Rome. He did it for noble reasons. The conspirators said they were doing it for the same reasons as him, but Brutus later finds out that the