William Shakespeare illustrates Mark Brutus as a tragic hero in the comedy The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Shakespeare defines the tragic hero as an imperfect character who has good luck, and then loses everything he has valued, leading to his misfortune, but a tragic hero must have that moment of enlightenment, that moment when a character can see that it was he who caused his downfall and receives the blame for his same tragedy based on an event historical, the assassination of Julius Caesar; however, the story revolves around the conspirators, not Caesar. The protagonists, Cassius and Brutus, are the two main conspirators: Cassius is the mastermind and Brutus is the face of the conspirators deceives Brutus to join the conspirators with the false hope that the people will fear Caesar and his authority, and Brutus wanting what the people want gave in to Cassius' plan. The conspirators planned and acted on the assassination of Julius Caesar in the belief that by killing him, the republican government that held Rome high would endure and monarchist ideals would vanish with Caesar's body. This was not the conclusion; by assassinating Julius Caesar, the man Rome desired as king, the conspirators created a king, Caesar's adopted son. Instead of Brutus and Cassius becoming the heroes and new leaders of Rome, both are banished and hated, creating a struggle for them to receive relief from their power hunger for Rome, resulting in their deaths. Brutus is the tragic hero of the Tragedy of Julius Caesar because he was flawed, caused his own downfall, faced a moment of enlightenment, and proved himself to be a man of honor. Brutus believes himself to be an arrogant, invulnerable and honorable man, for the R...... center of the card ......ymen, my heart rejoices because in all my life I have not found any man who does not was faithful to me” (996). Because of his downfall, the punishment that no one deserves, and his enlightenment, the audience is bound to pity him and feel sympathy for him, because the writer will be effective in receiving the audience's pain when a character goes through a trial that the audience could not bear to think. of this scenario. Brutus is a sympathetic character who is worthy of pity. In the play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare humanizes Mark Brutus with flaws that cause his personal downfall and a struggle for enlightenment, which establishes him as a sympathetic character. Because of his last words, his moment of enlightenment, Brutus died an honorable man. Brutus' life is the definition of a tragic hero. Works cited Elements of literature. Orlando: Holt, Winston, Rinehart, 2007.