Brutus Was The Tragic Hero of Julius Caesar

Tragic hero: A tragic hero has the potential for greatness but is doomed to fail. He is trapped in a situation where he cannot win. He makes some sort of tragic flaw, and this causes his fall from greatness. Even though he is a fallen hero, he still wins a moral victory, and his spirit lives on. In every one of Shakespeare's plays, there is a hero. In Julius Caesar, there are a number of …

…and say to all the world, "This was a man!" Brutus was born to nobility, he was a kind person, he loved Rome, and he made a fatal error: to be apart of the conspiracy against Caesar. After he died he still "won a moral victory" that was recognized as previously mentioned, by Antony, a man who wished to kill him, and as a result of his moral victory, his spirit lived on through respect.