The Pride Of Brutus In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

Caesar, an autocrat who views himself as a god, and Brutus, who prides himself on being as honorable as he can, both show an excessive amount of hubris throughout the story. Their overconfidence leads them through a dangerous path ultimately resulting in their demise. Caesar displays his hubris multiple times throughout the story by thinking himself to be almighty, instigating his closest friends to turn on him. At the senate house with his friends and allies, Caesar declares that he is as "constant as the northern star, / of whose true-fix'd and resting quality / there is no fellow in the firmament."(Shakespeare 3.1.60-62.), before he is stabbed by his most trusted of friends, fully realizing that Caesar was truly a tyrant. He thought of himself as a god, saying there was no other in the heavens. He

During an argument with Cassius where Brutus thinks he took money in dishonest ways, Brutus proclaims that he "can raise no money by vile means'' (Shakespeare 4.3.71), and he would rather "coin [his] heart / and drop [his] blood for drachmas" (Shakespeare 4.3.73-74). Later when he is surrounded by Antony's army and close to death, Brutus declares that "it is more worthy to leap in ourselves / than tarry till they push us" (Shakespeare 5.5.24-25), before commiting suicide by running into his sword. In both cases he would rather choose to die than put his honor on the line. If he ever used money from thieves, he would cut into his heart and sell his blood for money. Additionally, in Roman times if you got captured and you were a high-ranking commander, which Brutus is, you would get paraded around Rome before meeting a gruesome end. This would cause the prisoners to experience disrepute; therefore, Brutus would rather leap into his grave than experience dishonor. His excessive pride for his honor causes Brutus to do unreasonable things leading to his