Julius Caesar Villain

In plays people are usually a tragic hero and cause their own downfall or they are the villain in the story. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, there is a character who plays more of a tragic hero than the main character whom the audience believes to be. The character Brutus is more of a tragic hero than Caesar is while at the sametime he plays a villain as well. To begin with, Brutus fails to see his own downfall based on how easily he can be manipulated. Cassius needed Brutus to help get rid of Caesar because of how much the Romans admired Brutus.When Brutus would not agree to Cassius plan Cassius easily manipulated him and turned Brutus against one of his closest friends and later on helped to kill him. Even

The killing of Caesar was the main reason for Rome’s downfall. Without Caesar being seen as their king even though he never had the “king” title to his name the Romans for the most part adored Caesar, when he came back from defeating Pompey the citizens decorated Caesar’s statue. “Et tu, Brutus?” (Shakespeare Act III Scene I). Caesar’s last words were spent towards Brutus questioning how since Brutus is helping with stabbing Caesar to death then he must deserve it. “It is no matter; his name’s Cinna! Pluck but his name out of his heart, and turn him going” (Shakespeare Act III scene I). When everyone heard about how the conspirators killed Caesar no one knew if they were going to kill anyone else and who would be killed next if they were going to. Due to all of this chaos the citizens of Rome killed Cinna the poet just for having the same name as one of the conspirators. If Brutus had never turned against Caesar and helped to stab him to death then more likely there would not have been a war between Antony, Octavius and Lepidus’s triumvirate and Cassius and Brutus making him the villain for causing Rome’s downfall from this chain of events that took place years prior to the