Julius Caesar
Who’s The Noblest of the Main Characters in ?
When attempting to get a read on all the characters of the play Julius
Caesar and which one has the smallest flaws you need to look at each
character and evaluate them individually. You have to consider if Aristotle
would consider them noble or not. You have to decipher if the characters are
being noble for the right reasons. You have to also look at which characters
exhibit positive virtues and which ones don’t. Aristotle says, “virtue or
excellence is a characteristic involving choice, and that it consists in
observing the mean relative to us, a mean which is defined by a rationale
principal, such as a man of practical wisdom would use ...
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but no one really is. Of all the main characters I find that Brutus
has the least amount of flaws. But he too is not deficient of flaws. In order to
prove my point I will give reasons why some of the other characters cannot
be considered the noblest of them all.
The almighty, egotistical and borderline arrogant Julius Caesar had his
flaws. Caesar proved to be deficient in fear while also exhibiting excessive
courage. In attempting to prove how courageous he was, Caesar wanted to
prove a point to Cassuis by jumping into the flooded Tiber river. Caesar said
to Cassuis, “Dar’st thou, Cassuis, now Leap in with me into this angry flood,
And swim to yonder point(Shakespeare, 1.2-102-104)? After they jumped
into the water a dismayed Cassius describes what happens next, “Upon the
word, Accout’red as I was, I plunged in And bode him follow: so indeed he
did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it with lusty sinews, throwing it
aside And stemming it with hearts ...
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the most. Aristotle defines the term ignorant soldier as
“people who act in ignorance of their danger give the impression of being
courageous. .....Once the ignorant realize, however, that the situation is not
what they suspected it was, they are deceived and run away”(Aristotle, 1117a
20-25). As I already mentioned Caesar is fearful of his lean, athletic body.
Caesar says “Let me have men about me that are fat, sleek-headed men, and
such as sleep a-nights, Yond Cassuis has a lean and hungry look: He thinks
too much: such men are dangerous”(Shakespeare 1.2, 192-195). Caesar is
clearly fearful of Cassuis, but when Antony reassures him not to be fearful he
quickly shot ...
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