Brutus' tragiske skæbne i 'Julius Caesar'

Julius Caesar, which the famous writer Shakespeare wrote in 1599, has also been called the tragedy of Brutus. This because of the tragic flaw which Brutus contained and which led him to his own death.

Brutus is a man of great honour and a man which lives after his idealistic personality. Even though Brutus is a close friend to Caesar he decides to kill Caesar for the benefit of the nation. Brutus is so convinced that killing Caesar was the only and best decision. Because of Brutus lack of ability to change his own mind and therefore to see the case in another perspective, he commits hubris in the moment that he kills Caesar. Brutus which is shown as a loyal and noble man towards the people is in many ways also shown as a hero in this story. But this hero also makes the tragic flaw, by containing this blind idealism which both Brutus and Caesar contain. The flaw which Caesar contains is revealed many times in the story. For example in act three, scene 1, “Hence! Will thou lift up Olympus”, where Caesar undisguised compares himself with the Gods. The tragic flaw of Brutus is also that he takes over the Gods work by killing Caesar. Only the Gods can decide who should die, and because that Brutus places himself in a role as a divine character, he commits hubris. When Brutus finally sees his own flaw, he believes that he must kill himself. Brutus is a man of great pride, and this is one of his most important characteristics. This pride is also what leads him to committing suicide. He is to pride to let himself live, if he knows that there is a chance of him having killed a man for a wrong reason. Maybe Brutus actually made the right decision, but he gets struck by nemesis, because of his blind idealism, self-assurance and because of his blasphemous act of killing Caesar.