If brutus is ahero,caesar is a subject of the play?
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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
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Is Brutus the real hero in the play Julius Caesar? The play's name is Julius Caesar. However, Brutus' character is the most focused on. Why is that?
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This is a perplexing question to which there is no simple answer. In the same way that Shakespeare titled a play The Merchant of Venice, when the merchant, Antonio, is not the primary character in the play; in Julius Caesar, Caesar is not primary to the action that continues throughout the play. In both of these plays, however, the title character (in this case, Caesar) serves as the catalyst for action that is central to the play.
As for Brutus, the term "hero" can be misleading. We tend to think of a hero as someone who swoops in and saves the day, someone we would like to emulate