Julius Caesar Flaws Analysis

Everyone has flaws. Many, not just one, but many people have certain qualities, characteristics, or some traits that they may or may not be proud of. Yes, some of a persons qualities may be a little harder or more challenging to face than others but overall that is what totally completes a person, whether they choose to accept or decline it. Most of the time, a person is more than likely trying to grow out of them, trying to overcome them, or maybe even trying to battle them. Whatever they may be as a person, they always have choices in how to deal with them, it is always just how a certain person goes about it, in our case Julius Caesar, that changes that certain quality or fatal flaw that they have. Julius Caesar, as a person and as we know, has many flaws such as his narcissistic personality, his abundance of arrogance, and ultimately his ambition. Being composed of a variety of qualities is a great thing to have but being too absorbed into only maybe a few or rather even one quality can cause many setbacks. Like the person that he is, Julius Caesar was always a man of himself. He wanted merely nothing to do with anyone else and ultimately cared little about the people who surrounded him with love. More than once, Julius would always scorn the people that simply wanted to try to help him, like his own wife Calpurnia. Calpurnia, on the day the Senate was going to meet, had a terrible dream and prior to Julius’ departure for the Capitol, she rushed to him telling him her awful dream that Julius was going to be killed and that he should not go today. After much begging and pleading, he agreed to stay with her that day but only then did Decius come in and persuade him that the dream was false and to also tell him that they were going to crown him king of Rome today. After the message from Decius, Julius was angry with his own wife and said to her “How foolish do your fear seem now, Calpurnia! / I am ashamed I did yield to them. / Give me my robe, for I will go” and so he went, but little did he know he was in great danger, just yet another example that he was too blind not to listen to the only person trying to help him. (II.ii.105-107) That he was too infatuated with the only idea of becoming king and having everything for himself not realizing the consequences of not listening to the people whom had loved and cared for him. But little did he know, that being so in love with himself came along another threatening flaw behind the first one that only were going to make things worse. By the certain consequences at hand, Julius Caesar never really knew what to expect and when one does not know what is …show more content…
As Brutus is to Julius both are not perfect as no one is in this world. Julius Caesar was a man who grew close to his flaws, and was also a man who, as we know more than anything, has power and money and with that he wrote in his will that he granted his money and his gardens to the people of Rome but on the contrary was also a man who flaunted all of what he had to the lower class and from that, he ultimately made people hate him, which eventually led to his own undoing and his death. In the end, he led himself into a trap and was too blinded to see that it was about to snap down on him. Overall he was just too full of himself. Yes, he had love, family, and friends in the beginning and he was a very true man who loved those people right back but then the tables turned and when he was offered something very important he shoved those people aside just to get what he wanted. Because of his actions, he met his match and his worst opponent that beat him at his own game and from that is a perfect example of what not to do to those special things or certain individuals that you have grown up with, created a bond with, or fell in love with just to reach something greater on the other side that you do not