Do women play a vital role in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar? In my essay, I will analyze two critics Jan H. Blits and Mary Hamer who discussed whether or not women played a vital role in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The first critic, Jan H Blits, explains how the women in the play are inferior to the men. Blits expresses this opinion by comparing the roles of the two genders throughout the play: “The manly is associated with the enterprise, the brilliant, the cold, the independent, the high, and the noble. » Firstly Blits talks about the men in the play and make them seem important, he shows that men have a major role in the play because if you had these traits you could be seen as a much higher person than others, take Brutus for example. No one in Caesar has a good word for women." Again he's sexist, not the slightest respect for women but it fits the piece perfectly, the people of Rome seem to be a bit of a sheep who doesn't stand out not The citizens of Rome just follow the leader, so when Rome needs a new leader or someone to follow, they won't go to the meek, boring, dependent women, they will go to the man who. is noble, manly and Blits has a sexist view and believes that women have no place in Rome or in Caesar's play because they have no traits that a nobleman such as Brutus has, whereas Hamer agrees that they may not have the traits of a Roman noble, but they certainly have a major role in Caesar by being the backbone of their husbands. One point of the argument Hamer made was. that Portia's death and her self-inflicted injuries contributed to her husband's death. Hamer states that her self-inflicted injuries were.