Qadeer Khan khan1
Mrs. Chetty
ENG 10-1
17 October 2015
Julius Caesar-Critical Essay Response Across all the play Shakespeare wrote, however the tragic hero is usually easy to tell. A tragic hero is someone who is defeated for his/ her flaws, which leads to his/ her death. However, in Julius Caesar it was hard to identify who was a tragic hero, Caesar or Brutus? Throughout many conclusions, which leads to believes that the real tragic hero was Brutus in this play. Brutus is a character that has many hero qualities but still dies. The reason Brutus is consider a tragic hero is because of his
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Although Cassius knew that Brutus Loves Rome and would do anything for Rome. As a result Cassius writes letters as he was a citizen of Rome and dejected with Caesar. He threw them into the house of Brutus, anonymously with different hand writing. After fer joined the conspirator, their plan was to kill Mark Antony as well but Brutus disagreed with the conspirators because he only wanted to get rid of Caesar. In act 3 and scene 2, Brutus killed Caesar not because he was jealous of him but he was worried what will happen to Rome if he becomes the king of Rome. He knew that the life for Citizens would get …show more content…
Brutus weakness was that everyone can earn his trust on the first meet. He was killed because, he thought everyone is honest like him and no one will mislead him so fall for everything people told him. He was honorable but not as smart as Antony or Cassius, so they both took advantage of his trust and deceive him. His first mistake was in act 2 and scene 1, where Cassius send him fake letters this was all by Cassius to get him join the conspirators. Another example for his unsuspicious thoughts were in Act 3 and scene 2 where he let Mark Antony give a speech about Caesar's honor. Mark Antony took advantage of that and made the crowd believe that all the conspirator are bad and evil and they do not want good for Rome and we should take revenge. Mark Antony at the end admits that he was an honorable man. "This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirator save only he did that they did in envy of great Caesar; He only in general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the element so mxed in him that Nature might stand up and say to all the world, This was a man!"