Julius Caesar Downfall

Julius Caesar is a tragedy about betrayal, mistakes and loss. Marcus Brutus, one of our main characters, ends up betraying one of his best friends by conspiring against him, then soon killing him. This astounding play was originally published in 1623. A couple four hundred of years latter, this allure is now adored and performed by millions. Shakespeare wrote many different kind of poems, stories and plays. Some of the plays he wrote were comedies, histories and tragedies. Julius Caesar is one of his most famous tragedies written. A tragedy is a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one with the downfall of the main character. There always has to be a tragic hero: a character who makes the wrong judgment that

He considered this an honorable thing, so he put it before anything. For example Brutus says, “For let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honor more than I fear death.” (Shakespeare I.ii.49-95). Brutus here explains that he loves honor more than he fears death. This is clear proof on how he does hold honor over everything, even his own life, friends, and family. On the inside he's an amazing person and keeps his word, but it reality it all means nothing because no one else has that much honor and nobility as much as him. He's an easy target for deception and can be molded to do anything if the word of honor is brought into it. Brutus also explains “Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.” (Shakespeare III.ii.20). He tells the people of Rome he loved Caesar but killed him because he loved Rome more. This is one of the worst things Brutus has ever done, but he doesn't see it by that. He only sees the honor behind it. To kill and betray his most closest friend because he was afraid he might become a tyrant and was “arrogant” which will lead to major complications for the people of Rome. All of his intensions were to only do whats right for the people of Rome (because of its honor). He was willing to give up his most closest friend just for this title and to help the

“Caesar, now be still. I killed thee not with half so good a will.” (Shakespeare V.v.50-51). Brutus is addressing Caesar before he dies and tells him to be still because he didn’t kill Caesar half as willing as he now kills himself. He's displaying that he feels regret and guilty for killing Caesar. He later accepts his own death and has one of his soldiers hold his sword while he ran into it. He didn't want to give the enemy the opportunity to capture him, so the honorable thing was to kill himself. As a result Anthony later comes and finds his dead body and says “This was the most 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.” (Shakespeare V.v.68-72). Antony recognises and accepts that Brutus was the most noble/honorable. He was the only conspirator that thought killing Caesar was the most honorable and important thing for Rome's survival. While all the other conspirators killed Caesar out of greed and envy. If he had just had fate in Caesar and trusted his friend over his “honor” than maybe he could have had a different outcome. In the end brutus did still have his name of honor, but it was the one main thing that ended