How much strength does it take to admit a fault? Admitting a fault and accepting responsibility for it just so happens to be a quality that a tragic hero has to acquire. In addition, it also happens to be the most important quality of a tragic hero, in my opinion. This is why I presume a character who obtains this quality to be the main tragic hero in any writing. In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus is the tragic hero.
Evidently, Caesar may be perceived as the tragic hero because he loses the greatest, but he also possesses the flaw arrogance and pride (“Aristotle’s”). This, however, doesn’t make him the tragic hero because although he does occupy these qualities, Brutus possesses the flaw naivety, and loses greatly as well as obtaining additional qualities of a tragic
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In addition, Brutus is the more prominent tragic hero from the story because he ends up obtaining more of the qualities listed by Aristotle than Caesar. In this list includes how he recognized his wrongdoing and took responsibility for it, which as I mentioned earlier in paragraph one is a deal breaker for my choice. The difference between Caesar that decides who is the tragic hero has to do with their last words from my point of view. Caesar dies kind of dramatically, in the 3rd person even, and was arrogant to the very end, allowing the conspirators to get too close for his safety as proven, and killing him. Brutus, however, died proclaiming how much he regretted his choice to stab his dear friend, and was more understanding of what he did wrong before he died over all. It is almost black and white in this case, Brutus was the tragic hero, and Caesar simply