Julius Ceaser

According to the dictionary a tragic hero is "A literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy." To become a tragic hero the character should contain specific unique characteristics that will demonstrate how they changed the entire play of what could happen if they never existed. Noble birth, flaw, hard decisions, punishment, catharsis, and free choice, is what makes up this inimitable character in a novel. In Julius's Caesar by William Shakespeare, Marcus Brutus, a noble, honorable, innocent, and extremely loyal man, that is perceived as the tragic hero because he containes every single one of the characteristics mentioned.

Brutus was a strength, pledge, and talent character who took over a group of conspirators, even though he wasn't at all convinced that killing Caesar was the right decision. Brutus played a very important role in the conspiracy; he is the one who leads them all for the assassination. "Brutus shall lead the way, and we will grace his heels with the most boldest and best hearts of Rome. "(Act 3, scene 1, ll.135-136)

Brutus admitted that the killing of Caesar was made for the wrong reason, and he realized that he wasn't thinking about people of Rome, he was thinking further about the power of Rome. Brutus main tragic flaw is optimism, honor, and his bad decision taking. He always believing the best of people, like he thought about Cassius being a correct person who would never want to kill Caesar if its not for the good of Rome, but he actually wanted to take its power and keep it under his control. Another of his main flaws includes his bad decision taking when he decided not to kill Mark Antony, which lead at the end the destruction of the conspirators. Brutus declares, "For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers." (Pag. ) Another of his mistakes was when Brutus permitted Antony have a word at Caesar's funeral, that made all the crowd emotions arouse and provoked war.