The quote “Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't” by Eleanor Roosevelt gives a good overall view of how Brutus, from Julius Caesar, lived his life. In this book, Brutus made a life changing decision which, in the end, cost him his life. You may wonder what choice could be so bad that it costs you your life. Brutus committed to killing Caesar, the ruler of Rome, on the 15th of March. Brutus ends up losing his life because of the poor judgment he had after this act. The reasons Brutus lost his life were because he killed Caesar and he allowed Mark Antony to speak at the funeral.
The first reasoning to why I believe caused Brutus's death is that he listened
In Racine’s Phaedra, Phaedra is the main character is she is influenced by her passion and lust throughout the novel, which leads her to commit the crimes she commits by the power of guilt and shame. In Act 1, scene 3, Phaedra confesses her love for Hippolytus to her nurse. Phaedra knows that her love for Hippolytus can never be fulfilled and she feels shame for having this lust and passion for Hippolytus. Phaedra is very sneaky in how she tells her nurse, and never actually says his name as the man that she is in love with. “ Whom do you love?”
People would view brutus as rogue and a scoundrel. But the truth is is he was blinded by cassius that caesar turn rome’s citizens into worshippers of caesar and his bloodline. forever abolishing Rome’s religion Cassius used brutus to kill caesar and save rome. But it proved that brutus valued rome over the friendship with him and caesar. The aftermath of the assassination of leads to brutus and the others killing themselves in the battle.
“It’s only hubris if I fail” by Julius Caesar. This quote can summarize Chris McCandless and Victor Frankenstein perfectly. They were very prideful and knew that they would succeed in everything they do, which they somewhat did. Chris lived in the wild for 100 days but died and Victor created a monster that killed people. So both their pride brought them to failure.
Does his sense of patriotism really justify killing a friend and a major political leader? You may notice that Brutus isn't very sympathetic as he is defending what he did. The dramatic character has a flaw. That flaw maybe one single word, but there can be many parts to that word. For Brutus there are many parts of his flaw that make him the dramatic character.
To what extent does pride elicit exploitation? Greed, deception, glory, and a lust for power, all qualities portrayed by Roman generals, senators, nobles and even the aspiring soldiers. When thinking of a scenario where all these qualities are evoked, scholars tend to think of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, moreover; when thinking of deceit and betrayal the coup initialised by Caius Cassius and pitched to Marcus Brutus is a prime example. Like the two sides of a coin, pride and exploitation are indispensable to one another.
Betrayal. Death. Debate. From the moment that Brutus decided to kill the most powerful man in Rome, there was destined to be a major conflict after his death. Brutus was left to defend himself for why he has killed Caesar.
Through the play Caesar is a liked person and the people of the town wanted him to be crowned king. He is a person who is trusts his friends and that ends up back firing. In William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar portrays a tragic flaw, a realization, and moral ambiguity, which makes him the most tragic character. A tragic flaw that Caesar has is that he is very easily manipulated.
Brutus’s words emphasize his desperation for help in his death, “thou knowst that we two went to school together; Even for that our love of old, I prithee, Hold thou my sword whilst I run on it” further emphasizes that though they have been long friends who love each other Brutus’s need of not facing bondage leads him to his
5. This quote connects back to Julius Caesar in many ways, in particular when referring to the conspirators and Brutus. Brutus is persuaded to go over to the side of the conspirators, both by Cassius’s words and the planted letters. Cassius convinces Brutus that the people want him to lead, while he himself has never seen any evidence of that. Brutus trusts that Cassius is telling him the truth, and doesn’t take the initiative to ask the people himself.
But in the end, Brutus felt he had not made an honorable use of Caesar’s death and realized he made a mistake so he took his own life, and unlike Cassius, he died an honorable death for honorable reasons. “This was the noblest Roman of them 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”
In many tragic stories throughout history there always seems to be a definitive answer on which character has the tragic ending, but in some instances, it's hard to decipher which character it is. ” Julius Caesar” by Shakespeare is one of the playwright's many tragedies in which two characters seem to have a tragic ending, yet only one really does. Brutus should be called the tragic hero of the tragedy because Caesar had the ability to prevent his downfall countless times. The character Brutus throughout “Julius Caesar” by Shakespeare had been tricked and manipulated into thinking that what he was doing was right for his country.
Confidence is a killer and it shows in William ShakeSpeare's play Julius Caesar, which in Julius Caesar is murder by his close companions because he is supposedly ambitious and this points out a flaw in Caesar which is his confidence, his close companions were so close to caesar that he had confidence in them and never suspected a thing thus it ended up being the cause of his death. Confidence also shows up in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which happened to be that when Macbeth was told he couldn’t be killed by man of women born he was overconfident about being invincible to those he faced until one day when the woods surrounding the castle marched on it and he engaged an enemy he did not know was not women born he died because of his overconfidence.
Samantha Durand 27 October 2015 Dunipace 4th Julius Caesar Essay Brutus is the Tragic Hero William Shakespeare wrote “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” to tell the story of the tragedy that happened to him. When Caesar was going to become king, his own friends turned into conspirators against him. Since the conspirators said that Caesar would abuse the power of being king, they decided to murder him for the sake of the Roman people.
CHARACTERS & QUOTES: Casca: Casca tells Brutus and Cassius about how Antony had offered Caesar the crown three times, but Caesar refused to accept it all three times. As the crowd cheered and celebrated the regeneration of Caesar's power, he suddenly fainted. ”The rabblement hooted and clapped their chapped hands and threw up their sweaty nightcaps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath because Caesar refused the crown that it had almost choked Caesar, for he swooned and fell down at it.” Before he had fallen he noticed that the crowd had cheered as he rejected the crown causing him to open up his shirt and offer the commoners to cut his throat. Casca is in disbelief at what happened, even though it happened right in front of him.
An insatiable thirst for power is Richard’s flaw as a Vice character. In the play, this aspect of his character is simply displayed by his actions to take the throne, as the audience of his time would see this as an abhorrent transgression against the divine order. In Shakespeare’s time, the mere deformity of Richard’s arm and back symbolically mark him as an evil character. The play is confined by its theatrical structure, progressing as one set of actors leave stage and another enters, often with Richard’s character using this opportunity for soliloquies, “Thus, like the formal vice Iniquity/I moralize two meanings in one word”. (III, i, 82-83)