Antigone is a very tragic story written by a Greek author named Sophocles involving many deaths because of one man, Creon. Creon was lead to his downfall because of his own actions and arrogance making him the tragic hero in story of Antigone. A tragic hero by definition is a noble character with a tragic flaw. He is the tragic hero of Antigone because he is noble, he has a tragic flaw, and he is brought down the most.
First of all, Creon is the tragic hero of Antigone because he is a noble character. He is noble because he didn't make the law of forbidding the proper burial of Polynecies just for the sake of being mean, he did it because he believed that Polynecies was a traitor and Eteocles was loyal. A citation from the play said by Creon to explain how he is noble would be, "Polynecies, I say is to have no burial...This
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Secondly, Creon is the tragic hero of Antigone because he has a tragic flaw. Creon's tragic flaw is his pride. His pride leads him to do arrogant things. When he does these arrogant things, he doesn't do what the gods want because he thinks that, since he is king, he could do whatever he wants with his absolute power. A citation from the play said by Teiresias to help explain his tragic flaw would be, "But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride"(Sophocles 692).
Finally, Creon is the tragic hero of Antigone because he is brought down the most. He...