Antigone is the Best Tragic Hero Antigone is the leading tragic hero because her flaws show how she is stubborn and consistent. When someone is consistent it is easier for the reader to predict the characters doing. Antigone is being stubborn and wanting to bury Polyneices. She states here, “ Creon is not strong enough to stand in my way.”3 prologue. This quote reinforces how stubborn Antigone is because she thinks she is even more powerful than the king and is willing to die. Creon may be stubborn but not consistent. Once he finds out Antigone was the one that buried polyneices his opinion on his sentence shifts. He tries to have Antigone plead innocence. He betrays his inconsistent when he says, “Tell me, tell me briefly: how do you heard