That such a man should come in the end to defeat and death as a result of chance or accident would be shocking rather than truly tragic; for the downfall of a wholly good man is as unsatisfactory in tragedy as that of a wholly bad man. He should be shown as a man su

After Caesar’s death he accepts Antony’s offer of friendship at its face value, and allows him, despite the warnings of Cassius, to make a public speech at Caesar’s funeral. With almost incredible foolishness he assures that all will be well, because he himself will speak first, and give the people full and satisfactory reasons for Caesar’s death. And before this he has, on the highest moral grounds, refused to listen to the suggestions of Cassius that Antony and others of Caesar’s closest supporters should be killed at the same time.

But the beginning of the fourth act of Julius Caesar brings in reversal of the situation what Aristotle called ‘peripeteia’: it is now Brutus and his fellow conspirators who are haunted, and Caesar friends are the haunters. The last tow act shows Brutus tragic qualities in a magnificent form. In difficulty and danger his goodness shines more brightly than ever; on the other hand his weakness becomes more and more clear. His high principles blind him to the realities of the situation. Due to his act, we understand that by his inability to understand that morality must sometimes bend, brought defeat and de

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