The play ‘Julius Caesar’ by William Shakespeare is considered a tragedy by most people. However, some people, like I, believe that the main character isn’t Julius Caesar as the title suggests, but flows through three different characters throughout the course of the play, and each of the acts; Caius Cassius, Marcus Brutus and Mark Antony; Cassius, as he sets in the motion the events of the play, Brutus, as he sends Rome down a path of civil war and tragedy by assassinating Julius Caesar, and Mark Antony as he “revenges” Julius Caesar’s death.
In the first two acts, I believe that the main character is Caius Cassius. I believe that the main character in the first two acts is Caius Cassius, because by persuading Brutus to join the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, he ultimately causes many of the major events throughout the play to occur, as Brutus’ actions (supported by Cassius) start the events of acts 3-5. An example of this would be Brutus joining the conspirators’ (Act 1, Scene 2) assassination of Caesar (Act 3, Scene 1), causing the battle on the plains of Philippi (Act 5, all scenes). …show more content…
I believe that this is so, because occasionally, the main character can be defined as the character who causes the biggest and most eventful happening, An example of this in Julius Caesar where Brutus exhibits this behaviour is when he is the last person to stab Caesar, thus having Caesar recite his last words in the play “Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar” (Act 3, Scene 1), which could be interpreted as Caesar not believing that Brutus caused his
In the first two acts, I believe that the main character is Caius Cassius. I believe that the main character in the first two acts is Caius Cassius, because by persuading Brutus to join the conspiracy to assassinate Julius Caesar, he ultimately causes many of the major events throughout the play to occur, as Brutus’ actions (supported by Cassius) start the events of acts 3-5. An example of this would be Brutus joining the conspirators’ (Act 1, Scene 2) assassination of Caesar (Act 3, Scene 1), causing the battle on the plains of Philippi (Act 5, all scenes). …show more content…
I believe that this is so, because occasionally, the main character can be defined as the character who causes the biggest and most eventful happening, An example of this in Julius Caesar where Brutus exhibits this behaviour is when he is the last person to stab Caesar, thus having Caesar recite his last words in the play “Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar” (Act 3, Scene 1), which could be interpreted as Caesar not believing that Brutus caused his