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Antigone: A Tragic Hero

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In the book Antigone, Antigone is portrayed as a tragic hero throughout the story. A tragic hero is defined as someone who fights against a system, but in the end of the story, the character ends up failing. The story starts with a gargantuan war, called the battle of Thebes, which killed many people. During this prodigious war, Polyneices and his brother, Eteocles, kill each other in the battle. Then after the battle of Thebes, King Creon, turned against the entombment of Polyneices, due to the fact he denounced his own land prior to his death.
After the events of the war, Antigone is introduced in the story. The story starts off with Antigone and Ismene hearing about Creon’s settlement about not burying Polyneices. Antigone then goes off

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