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Julius Caesar Tragic Hero Quotes

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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

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Both Calphurnia and Decius use fear as a part of their arguments but, while Calphurnia taps into her own fear for her husband, Decius exposes Caesar’s fears about his reputation. Calphurnia tells Caesar of a dream in which blood was spouting from his body and as a result she argues that he should not go to the Senate House. Caesar, however, is not convinced by this omen because he feels that all events are “purposed by the mighty gods” (Line 16). Here he is claiming that the great, powerful gods would have more important matters to sort out than the life of Caesar. Of course, because Caesar’s true nature is egotistical his contention that he is not important enough to be of concern to the gods reveals his tendency to say things that are inconsistent

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We see this as Caesar is headed into the capitol to meet with the senate where he thinks he will gain rule, but does not know he is about to be killed. Artemidorus tells Caesar, “O Caesar, for mine’s a suit / That touches Caesar nearer. Read it, great Caesar” (3.1.6-7). Artemidorus has a paper that warned Caesar of the plot of his death which could have directly stopped him from dying.

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Antony states, “When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; / Ambition should be made of sterner stuff” (III.ii.88-89). Antony shows this to define the true good quality traits of how great of a leader Caesar was. In Brutus’s speech he claims that Caesar was too ambitious, however, Antony’s statement refutes Brutus’s point. Antony desperately but trying to maintain as if he unknowingly says it feels that the conspirators had wrongfully murdered a good leader and man. As the speech continues on the crowd begins to get more and angrier over the murder of Julius Caesar.

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Due to it being ultimately pointless to save the republic and, it being made out of arrogance and gullibility from Brutus. Brutus’ decision to assassinate Caesar was derived from two main faults arrogance, and gullibility. Arrogance being the strongest of the his faults, was most evident in Brutus’ soliloquy. Whereas Brutus’ tries to act humble to Cassius, it becomes obvious that Brutus is overconfident in his soliloquy. There are examples within this soliloquy that show Brutus was predicting the future without proper evidence.

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When considering Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, some might think Julius Caesar would be the better ruler of Rome because of his generosity and leadership, yet Brutus would truly be the better ruler because of his patriotism, nobility, and honor. There are many reasons why people believe that Caesar would make a better leader for the Romans than Brutus, one of which is Caesar’s generosity. Caesar is an extremely generous person towards all Romans, especially his wife, Calpurnia, throughout the play. When Calpurnia begs Caesar to stay at home due to a terrible nightmare she experienced, Caesar responds by saying, “Mark Anthony shall say I am not well, and for thy humor I will stay at home” (2.2.59-60). Calpurnia manages to dissuade Caesar from attending the very important meeting, unknowingly saving him from the malice soon to come.

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A tragic hero is a high-class person who realizes their mistakes and ends up suffering. Brutus was a hero in Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. Anne Paolucci stated in “ The tragic hero in Julius Caesar” that “Caesar is in a sense the dominating figure in the story, but Brutus is the hero” (Paolucci 2). In Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, Brutus was a mistaken hero because of his flaws, his mistakes, and realizing his mistakes. Paolucci, Anne.

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