How Is Antigone A Tragic Hero

Antigone is a tragic hero. Aristotle says that there are specific characteristics that compose a tragic hero. The hero must suffer more than she deserves, the hero must be doomed from the start, but bears no responsibility for possessing his flaw, the hero's story should arouse fear and empathy, and he has to be faced with a very serious decision that he has to make. Antigone applies all of these categories to be a tragic hero. Antigone is not afraid to be a tragic hero and knows what she is doing from the very beginning. She admits it to Creon and is not afraid to pay with her life to make a point.

According to Aristotle, The hero must suffer more than she deserves. Antigone unquestionably suffered excessively more than she ever had to. Creon decided that instead of a swift death of being executed that incipiently she was to be stoned to death. Then he decides to make it severer by ordering her to bury alive, which ultimately causes her to hang herself. This was all over a moral decision that could have been entirely neglected by Creon if he listened and thought about the opinions of his son and the people around him. Alternatively, he regrettably makes her suffer which would come back to bite him.
Antigone knows that she is transgressing the law by burying her brother's body. By doing this she is doomed from the start. She does it and Sentry intercepts her and he brings her to Creon. Creon could’ve pardoned her, but decides against it and that isn’t Antigone’s responsibility for Creon possessing the flaw of listening to other people and making a moral judgment. Because Antigone is making a moral decision, she bears no responsibility for Creon making an unjust ruling. Sadly, whatever Creon said went and he only wanted to listen to