What is a Tragic Hero? To Aristotle a tragic is a person of a noble birth, who has a trait that will lead to his/her downfall and realizes the weakness, making the audience become emotional. In “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”, by William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, the emperor of the Roman Empire is the tragic hero. He is very arrogant and ambitious, he realizes about his flaws when he gets assassinated, and causes the audience to become emotional when he is killed. The noble Julius Caesar, emperor of Rome, is very arrogant and ambitious, which are his tragic flaws. Caesar says many arrogant things including, “Caesar doth not wrong, nor without cause / will be satisfied” (3 1 47-49). He is saying how he believes that he is always right and that he deserves to always be satisfied. The night before the assassination, Caesar’s wife, Calphurnia, has a dream that warns Caesar of his …show more content…
She finds Caesar to tell him about the dream, but he denied the warnings and made fun of her. He says, ”How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia!” (2 2 105). He is arrogant and does not care about what other people think of, even his own wife. This arrogance prevents one decision that causes Caesar’s death. Also, he is very ambitious that his desire for power causes his to believe that it is worth the risk of being killed just to get more power to himself. Caesar is given many more warnings right before his murder. He sees the soothsayer who warned him of March 15th, and he boasts that he is still alive and it is the Ides of March. The soothsayer says that the day is not over in reply. Caesar continues to brag and ignores the warnings to not to go to the senate meeting. He thinks that he is too good to die early. Caesar believes that all of these warnings are worth ignoring to have more power. He is given many more warnings right before his murder. One