Creon Tragic Hero In Antigone

Who is the tragic hero in Sophocles’ story Antigone? Antigone is a tragic poem written by one of the most popular poets in history, Sophocles. It is a story of a girl who goes against man’s law in order to protect her brother and the gods laws. Unfortunately for her, the King, Creon, was a strong believer in mans law and protecting it at all costs. The story capitalizes on that conflict and how it was dealt with, but in the end Creon was the Tragic hero because of his excessive pride, his crave for power, and his misjudgement that eventually leads to his fate and downfall. What is a tragic hero? A tragic hero is a character, usually of a high status or nobility, who thinks that they are doing the right thing or even sometimes does the right thing, but makes an error or mistake that leads to a unfathomable punishment that they didn’t quite deserve. Creon fits every one of those attributes and characteristics. For example, he was promoted to the king of thebes, after a civil war that killed the former king, and after he was given the throne he made a law saying that no one shall bury the body of Polyneices, who Creon saw as a traitor. The Gods knew that he was not doing the right thing. Unfortunately, by the time Creon found that out it was too late. Creon’s excessive pride in his laws and his misjudgement in

This was for the poet to get into the emotions of the listeners to make the feel as if it might happen to them, also known as “Catharsis”. He also learned from his mistakes, but just too late. When he realized his flaw he buried Polyneices, but not quite quick enough. Because Antigone had hanged herself. Haimon, son of Creon and fiance to Antigone, had seen his love hanging and stabbed himself. It doesn’t stop there because, Creon’s wife Eurydice had killed herself as well in shock of her son’s recent suicide. What Creon had done was wrong, but his punishment was far worse than any of his