The audience is initially memorized by the Brutus they love, and are grateful for the ‘honorable acts’ he committed. This element of coercion helps him achieve his intentions of blindsiding the people to all aspects of the truth. But no worries, Brutus’ kind friend Antony will be sure uncover all and nothing but the truth for the commoners to second guesses Brutus’ words. 2nd Textual Quotation: “If, then, that friend demands to know why I rose up against Caesar, this is my answer: it’s not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men?...Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman?
The real purpose for his strategic power is as a transmitter of unbiased information. He is the outside observer to the madness; once something has been told to Horatio we, the audience feel safe believing it to be true. Hamlet’s soliloquizing puts an incredible strain on our confidence in his mental stability, but the conversations he and Horatio share give him credibility. Horatio follows a parallel journey to the audience throughout. His initial skepticism of the ghost echoes our own, and so once he is convinced so are we.
He utterly envies the men who died in the Trojan War, wishing he could be so lucky, as to die behind the walls. Instead he is fated to endure the wrath of Juno and lead the fleet of people to found a new city. He is a rather interesting character, different than common heroes, like Achilles in the Iliad, who are driven by kleos in their piety. Aeneas on the other hand, is strictly motivated by fate, but he still proves to be equally as pious, as heroes like Achilles. Not
Brutus evoked a feeling of patriotism in the crowd, which may have been more effective if he had spoken second. Antony’s rhetorical question educated the crowd of the nonexistent ambitions Brutus has made to excuse the murder. The rhetorical strategy of parallel structure was used well by Brutus. Antony told the crowd that he is not here to challenge Brutus, when in fact he is, and asserts, “I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know.” (Julius Caesar Act III. sc ii.
He says that he wants them to know the facts; "Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses that you may the better judge." Sharing information with the people tempts them and it almost guarantees him their acceptance. He tricked them by saying that he loved Caesar. He wanted to see if he could find anybody that loved Caesar more than him. Brutus declares that he never upset Caesar, and he cried for Caesar, was happy for his greatness, and that he honored him, but he had to kill him because of his ambition.
The first example is that Oedipus’ anger helps show how ignorant Oedipus is and how he even makes false accusations towards others. Oedipus sent Creon to find the city’s seer, Tiresias, and Oedipus then asked Tiresias who killed the previous king. Tiresias would not give Oedipus a valid answer and Oedipus grew angry. “Indeed, since I am so angry, I’ll pass over none/ of what I understand. Know that I think/ you, too, had your hand in this deed and did it,/ even though you did not kill with your own hands./ But if you could see, I would think the deed yours alone” (l. 364-368).
Due to Creon’s tragic flaw and destructive pride, he suffered at the hands of the angry Gods. According to Aristotle, a tragedy “arouses pity and fear in the audience so that they may be cleansed of these unsettling emotions.” Dr. Larry A. Brown, a professor of theater, says a tragedy “examines the major questions of human existence. Why are we here? How can we know the will of the gods?
In The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Marcus Brutus displays the traits of a tragic hero through out this play. His tragic flaw is his being too naive. He makes an error in judgment, and when this error occurred it causes his own downfall. But Brutus causes his own downfall when after killing Caesar all of Rome turns against the conspirators. And all these events lead to his death.
Oedipus meets all the qualities of a tragic hero by him being a man of noble and honorable stature, but his downfall is caused by his own fault but by an act of unfairness, his downfall is not earned by his acts, but at the end he learns a lesson. Oedipus meets Aristotle’s first characteristic of being a tragic hero of being a king and a noble man. The people of Thebes had much respect for Oedipus. The people from Thebes even looked up to Oedipus because he had saved them from the Sphinx. The priest even gave him the title of “Great Oedipus, O Powerful king of the Thebes.” (Sophocles 712.)
Othello was not a guillable man but he was a believer in anyone. But Desdemona had the bad end of it all because she got blamed for being disloyal to her husband. Iago was a selfish man but more importantly he was a cold hearted man that wanted everyone to feel the same way as he did. Iago had a jealous heart as well and couldn't stand the fact that love was in the air. In Othello, both themes of jealousy and hate were amoungst the main characters and developed new accuasations throughout the play.