Julius Caesar Tragic Hero Essay

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”(Page 21, William Shakespeare) Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, shows many tragic heroes, but the most identified one is Marcus Brutus. Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesar in 1599, and the first play was performed on September 21, 1599. Julius Caesar, was in the Roman military, and won many battles in Europe, Africa, and Asia, before being killed during a Senate meeting in Rome. Brutus was one of the main characters in Julius Caesar, and the story followed Brutus more than it followed Caesar, with Brutus killing Caesar in the third act, and then showing what Brutus and his companions in the murder did to amend himself after Caesar’s death. A tragic hero is someone born into a higher class family, and carnage, death, and destruction start around the fatally flawed person. This leads to an eventual victory for the

Shakespeare uses the over dramatic style of Brutus’ dialogue, to give him a narcissistic hubris, or fatal flaw. This contributes to the plot of the story, by giving Brutus a motive for killing Caesar, because he feels that with Caesar taking over Rome, Rome will be doomed to the wrath of Caesar. Brutus felt that he would be the savior of Rome, by getting rid of, or cleansing Rome of Caesar. This, however was not the case, and Brutus was forever faced with the guilt that he killed Caesar. He was not the only one who fought with these struggles of maintaining his sanity in public. Caius Cassius, also had these struggles and he too could not live with the guilt that he killed Caesar, and killed himself with the dagger he used on Julius Caesar. This symbolizes the start of Brutus’ dramatic heroism, and the start of a war that ends in the death of