Brutus As A Tragic Hero In The Tragedy Of Julius Caesar

The definition of a tragic hero can be expressed in many ways. One of the most famous ways, as Aristotle puts it, is a literary character that makes a judgement error that leads to his/her own destruction. In, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Brutus is the main character who shows the most qualities of a tragic hero. Some of those qualities include, excessive pride, disrespect toward people, and boasting about oneself. As the reader can see in (Shakespeare, 3.2 80-85), Antony gives a lecture to the plebeians about how honorable and noble Brutus is as man, even though, Caesar shows his ambitiousness by refusing the crown three times. This has led to many controversial theories debating between Brutus or Caesar being the tragic hero in the novel.
Comparing Julius to the egg of a serpent, in (Shakespeare, 2.1 30-32). Brutus finally makes the decision to kill Caesar once and for all. Eventually Cassius comes to part in this by bringing a group of men called the conspirators to Brutus’s doorstep. Planning his death to be vicious, Brutus and his conspirators come up with a way to kill Caesar. As the day was arriving, Cassius started to worry about Caesar not even coming to the Senate that day. Brutus makes up the idea to have Decius go persuade Caesar to ‘not look like a coward and go to the Senate’. This makes Calpurnia have a nightmare, dreaming that Julius’s statue had blood pouring in a million spouts while Romans bathed their hands in it, smiling. Having this tragic dream occur, Calpurnia foreshadows Caesar’s death the night