A tragic hero is defined by Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, as a human who is of high stature or who is respected in his community, but also has the ability to endure suffering. He or she must portray many positive personality traits, but also must possess a major character flaw, which will bring upon the downfall of the hero. The audience will then acknowledge the sense of catharsis. Antigone shows all the traits of a tragic hero in the Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus The King.
Antigone and her sister choose to return to Thebes because they want to help their brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices, not kill each other because there is a prophet that has predicted that they will kill each other in the battle for the throne of Thebes.
But when she