Jahminah Champagne Mrs. Korey English 2 AD 3/1/23 Caesar Essay Exam The mistakes that we make could have detrimental consequences and alter the course of our lives. In the play “Julius Caesar” written by Shakespeare, two main characters, Julius Caesar and Brutus, suffer from tragic flaws and make mistakes that ultimately result in their undoing. The tragedy of this play is predominantly Brutus’s, as his naivety brings chaos to his society and his nobleness gets him killed. Brutus is a naive individual of high nobility, living his life blinded to the maliciousness of the world around him, making his tragic flaw more significant to the entirety of the play. He expects others to be as kind as he is, which hinders his ability to accurately judge …show more content…
All Brutus wished to do was serve his country, and yet he ended up almost destroying the very thing he strived to protect. He allowed the conspirators to conspire against Caesar even though he held no malice toward Caesar. He enabled Cassius to influence his decisions and in the end, most of the events that transpire in the play are all a direct result of Brutus’s misjudgment, which is why Brutus’s story is the tragedy of the play. If he had realized how naive and egocentric he was, Brutus would not have made the mistakes he made. It is evident that everybody but Brutus realizes how noble and genuinely honorable he is, in the quote, “Yes, every man of them; and no man here but honors you; and every one doth wish you had but that opinion of yourself” (Shakespeare). Although Cassius only said these words in an attempt to manipulate Brutus, Cassius is right when he says that Brutus is unaware of how noble he is. Because Brutus was so innocent, he failed to recognize the reality of his situation and the evil intentions of the conspirators. Brutus’s tragic flaw of nobility causes him to make decisions that are not rational, such as joining the conspiracy and mistakenly disregarding Marc Antony. As a stoic, Brutus possessed