Brutus As A Tragic Hero

Antony refers to Brutus, “This was the noblest Roman of all. / All the conspirators save only he / did that they did in envy of great Caesar. / He only in a general honest thought / And common good to all, made one of them. / His life was gentle, and the elements / So mixed in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, ‘This was a man’” (V.v.68-75). He put his country before his friends and family, and he joined the conspirators to assassinate Caesar for the good of Rome. Even though Caesar was his friend, Brutus’s loyalty as a Roman citizen came first. Brutus is a tragic hero because he was able to put Rome first. A tragic hero is fated to his or her own suffering or death. Tragic heroes are somewhat fated to doom by the Gods or some other force. By Brutus’s love of
Mark Antony persuaded the townspeople and countrymen to go against Brutus. Without the tension between Antony and Brutus, there would not have been a battle between the two and Brutus would not have killed himself. Brutus’s own choices sealed his fate.
Yes, Caesar was a hero for defeating Pompey, but Brutus killed Caesar for the good of Rome. It seemed as if Caesar only won the battle against Pompey, to gain the crown for himself, even though he denied the crown at first. Brutus put Rome before anything else. Even his friends and family and that is what a true hero is. Brutus was fated to death, which makes him more of a tragic hero because his actions are what led him to that death. Brutus was a true tragic hero of this play.
He was a hero because of his love for Rome, but his fate doomed him to his death. He was a tragic hero because he only killed Caesar for the good of Rome, but had suffered a horrible fate. Brutus is the tragic hero of Julius Caesar because he was the hero of Rome, but killed himself at the end of the