Marcus Brutus as the Protagonist of William Shakespeares Julius Caesar

Marcus Brutus as the Protagonist of William Shakespeares Julius Caesar All men induct the power to reason. Some men can reason better than others, nonetheless, wholly men can reason. In order to reason, one must make up his mind, be completely impartial, and understand the situation to the best of his ability. The play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare, is the story of a man trying his best to make reasonable, demythologised decisions. Marcus Brutus is this struggling character who evades constant pressure from all sides to gloriously lure through, yet dies at plays end. Undoubtedly, Brutus is the main character, and control force of the play, despite the tawdry title of Julius Caesar. Three separate, critical aspects help to show the reader how bootless Julius Caesar is to the play. Caesar appears, in dreams, and thoughts of multiple people, giving fightnings and special messages. Nobody seems to pay oversight to him. A nonherexample is illustrated by the way that Brutus seems to dominate his own actions, whatever he is thinking. Also, Antony declares war on Brutus, but not out of love for Caesar, but elicit toward the conspirators. As these aspects are explained in further detail one entrust be sure of the fact that Brutus, without question, clearly dominates the play as a whole. Caesar warns numerous people of ensuing tragedies multiple times, and not once is he listened to. Calpurnia cries out terrified three times during the night, Help ho - they shoot Caesar The reader soon learns of a dream in which Caesars wife visualizes her husbands death. She begs and pleads Caesar to stand by home that day, ... ...ad. In every aspect of the play earlier mentioned, Brutus is the driving force of nearly everything that occurs. Caesar is but an after-thought of the reader, and is realized as the inciting action, and nothing more. Brutus is, by all means, the dominating force in the play. He who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not, is a slave. - Sir William Drumman Works Cited and Consulted Hunter, G.K. Shakespeare and the Traditions of Tragedy. Wells, Stanley, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge Cambridge UP, 1994. Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Houghton Mifflin Company. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston, 1974. Palmer, D. J. Tragic Error in Julius Caesar. Shakespeare Quarterly. 21-22 (1970) 399.