Caesar: Journal 3

The quote of Brutus having to take the law into his own hands and do to Caesar the injustice of murdering him brings connections of the play Julius Caesar to the novel, Of Mice and Men by Jon Stienbeck. In the story of Mice and Men, the main character Lennie is killed by his friend, George. Lennie is killed by George because Lennie kills a girl by accident and George finds that the only way to protect Lennie is if he is shot and killed. In the quote it is said that "the motives are high, but he tragic error is plain. It is perhaps better to peak of a tragic hero as making an error than as having a "flaw." The flaw that Lennie has is that he is not very smart and he cannot function without the aid of George. Lennie's flaw is that he does not know that he is killing someone or something. In the case of Lennie he pets a dog too hard and the dog dies. When he does this happens again, this time it includes a human. Lennie snaps the girls neck and George sees no way to help Lennie get out of the crime. George has to take the law into his own hands and do Lennie injustice of murdering him. Lennie makes and error of not listening to George and staying away from the girl. If Lennie had listened to George he would have not killed the girl. Instead, Lennie's flaw plays a part in his own murder. It is Lennie's fault for his own death, his flaw of lack of knowledge. This way it is better to speak of Lennie as making an error, by not listening to George than having a flaw that got him killed.