The tragic hero must have a flaw or error of judgment which can come in the from of justice or vengeance. As seen in Creon and Oedipus' story that the justice they serve is immortal and wicked. The hero must also experience a setback of fortune brought forth because of the hero's inaccuracy in discernment. The realization or recognition that the setback was brought by the hero's own actions. Excessive Pride is the most common of tragic hero's flaws which bring forward the remaining of the part the predicaments. The character's fate must be more terrible than what they deserved to get from their previous actions . Aristotle's idea of a true tragic hero revolves around three fundamental effects: First, the audience creates an emotional attachment to the tragic hero; second, the audience dreads a disastrous end for the hero; and finally (after misfortune strikes) the audience pities …show more content…
Through these attachments the individual members of the audience refines the tragedy with his or her sense of difficult ethical issues through a vicarious experience of such difficult problems. Clearly, for Aristotle's theory to work, the tragic hero must be a complex and well-constructed character such as Creon and Oedipus both developed by Sophocles.
Creon is considered a tragic figure in the play Antigone, because he is of a noble status as king. Creon also has a tragic flaw of pride when he refuses to take down his decree that: "Polyneices, I say, is to have no burial: no man is to touch him or say the least prayer for him; he shall lie on the plain, unburied; and