Brutus The Tragic Hero Essay

perfect human being not even a tragic hero. Everybody has flaws it is just human nature to not be perfect. Even though people associate the word hero with a human that is perfect. When hero is paired with tragic in the word tragic hero the person who is the tragic hero is the same as everybody else they have a flaw, but their flaw causes their demise in the literary work. Brutus in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is a tragic hero because his tragic flaw, being naive, cause…

catastrophe in more characters than just Caesar. William Shakespeare presented Marcus Brutus in a way that closely followed the example of a tragic hero. He came from noble birth, had a fatal flaw and suffered a great tragedy. He also fits into Shakespeare’s variation of tragic heroes, by giving Brutus complexity, internal conflict, and using choice over fate. Brutus’ ultimate goal is fulfilled in part by his actions. Brutus thought his cause to be honorable, and that cause included the murder…

Julius Caesar, Brutus’ tragic flaw is what made him a tragic hero. In Shakespeare’s play, the entire play is centered around his model of a tragic hero and his tragic flaw causing the downfall of the play. Brutus must decide if he should kill his best friend for the benefit of the country or let him live and lose the democracy they love to a tyrant. All in all, Brutus’s relationship with Caesar is strong, but his love for his country is stronger. In Shakespeare’s play, a tragic hero has five…

who played Superman in the 1978 Superman movie, Christopher Reeve, once said “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” In William Shakespeare’s, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus, one of the main characters, is considered to be the hero. He is considered as a tragic hero to be specific. Just as Christopher Reeve’s quote said, Brutus found strength to persevere in spite of the difficult choices he had to make.…

Brutus; The Tragic Hero “How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents not yet unknown!” (Shakespeare 3.1 112-114). These words were written by Shakespeare himself, whether he intended for the dialogue to have an underlying meaning or not, he had no idea to what degree his words would reign true. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is still reenacted and analyzed to this very day. A big part of Shakespeare’s work that is recognized today are the twists and…

protagonist, Marcus Brutus, and his actions. Brutus was not only a protagonist; he was also a tragic hero. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction. Brutus was characterized as a noble, honorable Roman throughout the entire play. But what did it really mean when his friends, allies, and even enemies described him as this virtuous character when an error in judgment would ultimately lead to his death? Brutus was a tragic…

Tragic Hero Essay The tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is a play of a tragic hero in this play that is Marcus Brutus. To be a tragic hero that person must have a tragic flaw which in this case has to do with Brutus’s fellow conspirators in their actual intentions of Killing Julius Caesar. Junius Brutus is a very important person to the people of Rome also Marcus Brutus’s ancestor. Junius freed Rome from the tyrannical tarquin kings and in doing so he established the democracy…

only tragedy in the play. Marcus Brutus also had his own tragedy. As he was portrayed, Brutus was a nobleman of Rome and a close friend of Caesar’s. He was in the Roman Senate and was a good man. Brutus made many heroic decisions in the play, but the outcomes of these decisions are tragic. There are many elements that make Brutus a tragic hero. First, in Shakespeare’s writing, he used traditional elements. These elements are the use of a tragic hero and a tragic flaw. These two elements are…

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…

Within Julius Caesar there is much debate as to who the real protagonists and antagonists are, especially when it comes to the character Brutus. Some argue that Shakespeare meant for Brutus to be the villain of Julius Caesar, but I believe that Brutus is a protagonist in this story. He possesses many characteristics associated with tragic heroes, a.k.a protagonists, he plays a major role in the story, and his role is capable of being interpreted in many different ways. When the question of…