Brutus is a tragic hero because he is the character that made an error of judgment and brought on a tragedy. In the beginning he was a benevolent person and a good friend of Caesar.

good of Rome, because Caesar was a very bad ruler. The people of Rome, however, led by a friend of Caesar named Marc Antony, ran the conspirators out of town for doing such a tedious deed. After this, Antony and Brutus got into a war, and Brutus ended up killing himself.        Brutus is a tragic hero because he is the character that made an error of judgment and brought on a tragedy. In the beginning he was a benevolent person and a good friend of Caesar. His error of judgment, or mistake, was when he decided to join the conspiracy against Caesar and assassinate him. This was a fatal mistake for him because in the end his decision ends up making him kill himself. By betraying Caesar like he did, it made one thing led to the other, everyone hated him when he was just trying to do the right thing for Rome altogether, but his plan backfired. By joining the conspiracy it changed him from a very respectable citizen and friend into a deceitful person and backstabbing friend to Caesar (literally). All of these things combined led to the tragedy of many things. One tragedy that occurred was Portia, Brutus’ wife, killed herself because he wasn’t around. If he wouldn’t have joined the conspiracy then he never would have been ran out of town and she never would have killed herself. Another tragedy was the war with Antony, it was obviously caused because of Brutus killing Antony’s friend Caesar. The last but most noticeable tragedy was Brutus killing himself. If he would have never agreed to help assassinate his friend Caesar, he would have never had to suffer through all the tragedies and he would have lived a lot longer.        Julius Caesar is not a tragic hero because he always stayed the same. He was always self-centered and full of himself which is not heroic at all. He treated the people of Rome with much disgrace and disrespect, he never cared for what they wanted and pretty much all of his actions contributed to the tragedy of his death. If he had been nicer to the people then no one would have wanted to assassinate him and the whole thing never would have happened. You couldn’t call him a tragic hero because, even though he did suffer a tragedy, it was not because of one error of judgment. Caesar had many errors of judgment, he first killed Pompey which made people dislike him, then he was just rude to everyone and overall a not very pleasant person to be around. He was disrespectful to his wife and disregarded the warnings that she gave him, she tried to save his life but he was too wrapped up in his ego to listen to a woman. He never showed any love for her and never really did anything good for anyone.        So since a tragic hero is a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy, Brutus defiantly qualifies as the tragic character in Julius Caesar. You can clearly tell that Brutus had much more of a tragedy then Caesar, because Caesar had this coming to him. Brutus would have been just fine without making that one mistake of joining the conspiracy, but he did and then he ended up dead. Caesar could have prevented the whole thing by not being such a self-centered egotistical leader. Neither of them did this and that’s the reason why we ended up with the tragedy of both of them, and with Brutus being the tragic hero.