In William Shakespeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus is portrayed as a tragic hero. He is one of two characters in this play who go from being very high up in society to falling completely by themselves. Brutus makes many mistakes but is aware of them. The fact that he is too flexible and accepts his death as his own cause shows the true tragic hero in Brutus, and each person has their own vision and interpretation of him. The problem in this story, even though it is titled “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,” is far from just Caesar himself. Brutus must overcome many obstacles, one of which is his involvement in the murder of Caesar, his best friend. He has to live with this guilt forever and it causes problems between him and one of the other conspirators. Brutus is, to put it mildly, the most fitting example of a tragic hero. Brutus is a flexible character in this story. He knows he is Caesar's best and most faithful friend, but he still managed to turn against him with the words of another. He knows it isn't right to be a part of it at first because he says, "I know of no other personal cause to spur him on / than that of the general" (924). The conspirators succeed in their mission to implicate Brutus in Caesar's murder, but not for the right reasons. He knows how sincere and true Caesar is, but he goes on to compare him to a snake's egg. “And therefore regard him as a serpent's egg / which, hatched, would become, like his kind, mischievous, / and would kill him in the shell” (926). In my opinion, all it would take is one truly evil and malevolent person like this to turn against your closest friend. Being able to be moved in this way is a major flaw and is not something Brutus can be proud of....... middle of paper...... the good of Rome. Anyone who is strong enough for this is to be commended. Brutus lets all of Rome know how much Caesar meant to him and why he did what he did by saying, “Because Caesar loved me, I weep for him; because he was / valiant, I honor him: but, because he was ambitious, I killed him" (953). With Brutus being flexible, he accepts his death for what it really is and people are able to make many different judgments about of him, comes out as the tragic hero in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare Everything Brutus does adds to the suspense and realism of the entire play definitively tell everyone what a true tragic hero is through this play.Work citedElements of literature Orlando: Holt, Winston, Rinehart, 2007.