Since the Elizabethan era, society has been familiar with William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Throughout the play, Brutus struggles to deal with his internal conflict, which later leads him to join the conspiracy to assassinate Caesar. After Caesar's assassination, Brutus does not realize that the Romans despise him for his actions. When he finally realizes his tragic flaw in gullibility, he tells Strato to kill him, so he would not have to witness his defeat in the war against Mark Antony in front of the Romans. Shakespeare wrote the play so that the audience visualizes that Caesar along with Brutus are the tragic heroes of the play, but he does not recognize Portia as a tragic hero; therefore, the audience fails to realize that Portia also has the characteristics of a tragic hero. In the tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare uses Portia to present the audience with the tragic flaw of the struggle to become more virile. In the tragedy of Julius Caesar, Shakespeare uses Portia to demonstrate that manliness is the highest virtue in society. Someone virile is a person who uses their nobility by flattering their power with each other to achieve their goals. Blits believes that the characters in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar use this nobility and try to make something of it, he states: "The men we see in the play have the strongest desire for worldly glory and, regarding honor as the highest good, incessantly fight to win it” (Blits 31). Her speech Portia states: “I grant that, using the methods obsequious of her nobility, Brutus will tell her about the conspiracy. She mentions her father... in the middle of the sheet... suffers exactly the same pain as men when in combat and Blits tells us that "virility is shown mainly in battle, so the combat between warriors does not stop at the city walls. Portia does not show any emotion to Brutus when he cuts himself because she knows that a manly person cannot show any emotion when he is in pain. Once the audience visualizes Portia not getting what she deserves after cutting herself, the audience truly understands that she struggles to become more manly in the show but never succeeds. Works Cited Blitz, Jan H. "Maniness and Friendship in Julius Caesar" Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations: Julius Caesar. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Infobase Publishing, 2010.Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Julius Caesar. Prentice Hall Literature: Grade Ten. Ed. Kate Kinsella, et al. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2007. 824-923.