How Is Julius Caesar A Tragic Hero

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a drama written by William Shakespeare, one of the most influential writers in the English language. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is based in a real historical event, the murder of Gaius Julius Caesar in ancient Rome. This play describes events that led to the assassination of Caesar. It is known that Shakespeare took inspiration from history because of his depiction of some aspects described in the play (Shmoop University Inc). Shakespeare uses other historical figures of ancient Rome to create a “real” mood in his play. Even though the play is called The Tragedy of Julius Caesar the tragic hero isn’t Caesar himself but Julius Brutus a diplomatic and close friend of Caesar. To add a dramatic effect to his play Shakespeare, like any other author, tweaks the historical characters his used in his play to make them fit perfectly with the dramatic structure and his own idea for this tragedy. Even though Shakespeare tried to

He was born July 100 BC .His military skill led him to his acquisition of great military power. Unlike in the play, Caesar became dictator of Rome before the civil war against Pompey. After this Caesar chased Pompey to Egypt but when he arrived Pompey had already been assassinated by the Egyptians, there the Egyptians gave him Pompey’s ring and showed him his decapitated head (Dalkeith). While he stayed in Egypt, Julius Caesar helped Cleopatra in the Egyptian civil war for the throne of Egypt. In 45 BC Caesar won the Egyptian civil war and help Cleopatra gain the title of Pharaoh of Egypt. Like Shakespeare depicted in his play Caesar was assassinated by conspirator in the roman senate on the Ides of March (Slemen). The conspirator included among them: Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus two other characters also featured in the play (Encyclopedia of World