First of all, Brutus is seen superior because of his close friendship with the powerful Caesar and because of his popularity with the people . This is the main reason why the conspirators need Brutus to join the conspiracy. Brutus' idealism and goodness are evident throughout the play, he sees only the goodness in people and naively believes others as honorable as he. Even his enemy ,Mark Antony comments on these traits at the end of the play: 'This was the noblest Roman of them all'.

Brutus was a servant and most importantly a close friend to Caesar. He loved Caesar but feared his power and would not allow him to rise to top and then turn his back onto the people of Rome ,as the quote in Act II says, 'Whereto the climber upward turns his face... scorni

Brutus may be high-minded ,but his principles do not seem to prepare him very well for dealing with a corrupt world. He can not recognize motives that are less noble than his own ,and is therefore preyed upon by unscrupulous politicians. As Cassius himself says behind Brutus' back: 'Well Brutus , thou art noble; yet I see thy honorable mettle... that cannot be seduced?' Act I scene2. His soliloquy at the opening of Act II reveals Brutus as an extremely virtuous but deluded man whose head must be forever in the clouds. The whole force of the tragedy centers around the basic irony of the man's futility. His best qualities drag him down. He, the tragic hero, risked everything and anything using deceiving ways to achieve his goal. The conspiracy ruined his private life. It alienated him from his once happy relationship with Portia because he was too caught up in his problems to care about anything else. Portia begged Brutus to tell her what us happening but events prohibited it and Portia's death added to Brutus's inevitable disaster. He lost everything as the result of his belief that he acted honorably and the culmination of the hero's disaster comes at the end when in his despair he tells to Srato to kill him: 'Farewell Strato. Caesar now be still .I killed not thee with half so good a will'(Act 5) .Yet it is not his death itself that had made this play a tragedy but rather his tragic flaw that has brought about the waste of all the virtues, the love and the life-values of the man, Brutus. Furthermore, the final speech given by Antony is a moving tribute to Brutus' qualities which reminds us of the direct, honest and uncomplicated character that he is, and that is why he does in fact, as he mentioned in Act 5 scene 5, 'have glory by this losing day' in a sense in which his opponents can never have it in their victory. As a result, Brutus deserves to be called a tragic hero because he dedicates his life to a holy cause.

Another character that could be a cause of tragedy is Cassius. When we first meet Cassius, he is, in contrast to Brutus', quick-witted, practical, and opportunistic. In Act I ,scene 2 ,he flatteringly maneuvers the noble Brutus into joining the conspiracy and his soliloquy at the end of the scene reveals Cassius as a vindictive and cold-blooded schemer. Nevertheless, Caesar admired Brutus but disliked Cassius, thus it is that Cassius has selfish reasons for wanting Caesar out of the way. In the argument between Brutus and him in Act 4, Shakespeare shows us another side of Cassius' personality . The Cassius of the quarrel scene was a man of dignity, sensitivity, and human warmth. His love for Brutus seemed quite genuine, particularly after the assassination. As death approaches, Cassius realizes that he is not the measure of all things, and that there are forces at work in the universe beyond his understanding and control. He then reveals emotional hysteria and threatens to kill himself if the plot fails. It is also a greater irony that Cassius who has always perceived the practical realities of the situation around him, is now finally and fatally misled by his servant's report. Therefore, he takes his life, not because he has lost the battle, but because he mistakenly believes that he has caused the death of a friend.

At the end, one realizes that in spite of their tragic flaw, and their mistakes, Cassius ,Brutus and Caesar do in fact fit in the definition of a tragic hero. They are all presented as someone neither entirely good nor entirely evil, but who is led by some t

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