Marcus Brutus As A Tragic Hero

The story of Julius Caesar was written by William Shakespeare, starts of with a successful leader of Rome named Caesar who wants to be an invincible ruler of his country. Then being warned “Beware the ides of March” by a Soothsayer, which then comes true, Caesar gets assassinated by his best Friend, Marcus Brutus, who is a person that puts his honor more than anything else. Brutus kills his best friend thinking it was for the good of Rome that it was the honorable thing to do because the conspirators persuaded him that, Caesar can 't rule and he is soon to be a tyrant. Caesar’s adopted son (Octavius) and his other friend Marc Antony decided to start a war with the Conspirators and Brutus, which then at the end all the Conspirators die and

The tragic hero in Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar is Marcus Brutus, three reasons to why Brutus is a tragic hero in the play is because of Hamartia/tragic flaw which is when he holds his honor more than his life, reversal fate, and his nemesis when he saw the ghost of Caesar and the knowledge of death. Throughout the play, Brutus bases all of his decisions on honor. Believing that being honorable is more important than his own life, or the life of his closest friends and family, Brutus states in Act 1 “What means this shouting? I do fear the people choose Caesar for their king” (I.ii.79-80). He presumes that Caesar will become a tyrant. As friends Brutus doesn 't want him being king because he holds his honor more than his friends, and to him friendship is just priority. This is a strange attitude to have especially against your best friend whom you 're supposed to be happy and excited for their accomplishments. Another statement from Brutus in Act 1 is “For let the the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death” (I.ii.94-95). In this quote Brutus explains part of his logic/reasoning for killing Caesar. Brutus has no personal reason to want him dead, it is for the people of Rome( and therefore honorable). It was honorable to kill Caesar for the people because to Brutus, Caesar was just one person against the people of Rome. Even though

In Act 5 as stated in the play “Caesar, now be still. I killed thee not with half so good a will” (V.v.50-51). In the quote Brutus is about to die and is addressing Caesar. He tells him to be still because he didn’t kill Caesar half as willing as he now kills himself. Brutus is once again demonstrating that he feels remorse for having to kill Caesar. Brutus does in fact accept his own death was because the entire play was his love for his home (Rome) and his desire to make it better and in willing to do so he must kill his best friend which he did. However the citizens of Rome disliked what Brutus has done and he decided to take action in killing himself just for Rome and all of this was honorable, it wasn 't just for him but for the people of his home. What made the killing of Brutus so special is that he killed himself and it was unlike Cassius because everything Brutus has done was for the people of Rome. Additionally, Cassius’s decision was unlike Brutus because it was based on greed and power. In the play Shakespeare wrote “Why,I will see thee at Philippi then.”(IV.iii.288), The quote clarifies that Brutus has just been visited by Caesar’s ghost and agrees that he will see him at Philippi. The ghost of Caesar 's visit implies that there is going to be bad news/ warning, Brutus understands the warning the ghost of Caesar is trying to explain that he is going to see Caesar again at