Emalee McCracken
Mrs.Voshell
Honors English 10
10 May 2017
Shakespearean Tragic Hero
The Tragedy Julius Caesar a dramatic play written by William Shakespeare that deals with the conspiracy and death of one of Rome’s most prominent leaders, Julius Caesar. In this play we have many characters one of whom is the noble Marcus Brutus. The idea of a shakespearean tragic hero can be seen through Brutus’ character traits. Shakespeare used many different elements to create his tragic heros. But in order for there to be a tragic hero there must be two things a hero and a tragic flaw. Through Shakespeare's model it can be seen that Brutus and not Caesar himself is the tragic hero of the play.
Shakespeare used traditional elements to create a tragic hero. …show more content…
Brutus’ tragic flaw is pride. Brutus would rather fight to the death than surrender or loose. His pride is put before any one of his choices. Any choice that he makes is almost always influenced by it. This was how Cassius gets him ]to join the conspiracy in the beginning. Cassius told Brutus that he has gone soft and that he needed to defend what his ancestors created. Therefore that choice was influenced due to his pride. During act V when the combined armies of Brutus and Cassius fight against the combined armies of Octavius and Antony Brutus commits suicide because he didn’t want to lose the fight. This choice is again influenced by his …show more content…
This is an older form of cause and effect. For Brutus this happens during the climax of the play after he decided to join the conspirators in their plot against Ceaser. And in Alice Shalvi’s article Brutus’s Personal Failure Is The Central Tragedy she states “His plans may have gone tragically awry and, what is more ,the very act which he committed may have been shown by Shakespeare to have been evil.” Brutus killed Caeser to help better Rome, but then regretted it later in the play .This was because he found out that the rest of the conspirators only killed Caeser for personal gain. This was another addition to Shakespeare’s writing that made these tragic heroes his own.
Together Shakespeare used these elements to create his tragic heroes. Some of them were traditional, while others were different and brand new for the time period. While the play might bear the name of Julius Ceaser. All of the elements needed for Brutus to be a tragic hero are used. Brutus is the tragic hero of the play because he has complexity through an internal conflict, a tragic flaw, choices that were influenced by his tragic flaw, and he also suffered a catastrophe. Shakespeare used many of these heroes throughout his writings, and each one was different from the
Mrs.Voshell
Honors English 10
10 May 2017
Shakespearean Tragic Hero
The Tragedy Julius Caesar a dramatic play written by William Shakespeare that deals with the conspiracy and death of one of Rome’s most prominent leaders, Julius Caesar. In this play we have many characters one of whom is the noble Marcus Brutus. The idea of a shakespearean tragic hero can be seen through Brutus’ character traits. Shakespeare used many different elements to create his tragic heros. But in order for there to be a tragic hero there must be two things a hero and a tragic flaw. Through Shakespeare's model it can be seen that Brutus and not Caesar himself is the tragic hero of the play.
Shakespeare used traditional elements to create a tragic hero. …show more content…
Brutus’ tragic flaw is pride. Brutus would rather fight to the death than surrender or loose. His pride is put before any one of his choices. Any choice that he makes is almost always influenced by it. This was how Cassius gets him ]to join the conspiracy in the beginning. Cassius told Brutus that he has gone soft and that he needed to defend what his ancestors created. Therefore that choice was influenced due to his pride. During act V when the combined armies of Brutus and Cassius fight against the combined armies of Octavius and Antony Brutus commits suicide because he didn’t want to lose the fight. This choice is again influenced by his …show more content…
This is an older form of cause and effect. For Brutus this happens during the climax of the play after he decided to join the conspirators in their plot against Ceaser. And in Alice Shalvi’s article Brutus’s Personal Failure Is The Central Tragedy she states “His plans may have gone tragically awry and, what is more ,the very act which he committed may have been shown by Shakespeare to have been evil.” Brutus killed Caeser to help better Rome, but then regretted it later in the play .This was because he found out that the rest of the conspirators only killed Caeser for personal gain. This was another addition to Shakespeare’s writing that made these tragic heroes his own.
Together Shakespeare used these elements to create his tragic heroes. Some of them were traditional, while others were different and brand new for the time period. While the play might bear the name of Julius Ceaser. All of the elements needed for Brutus to be a tragic hero are used. Brutus is the tragic hero of the play because he has complexity through an internal conflict, a tragic flaw, choices that were influenced by his tragic flaw, and he also suffered a catastrophe. Shakespeare used many of these heroes throughout his writings, and each one was different from the