Tragic Hero In Sophocles Antigone

Aristotle once said, “A man doesn’t become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” Sophocles’s Antigone was written in 440 B.C. which was the time when plays were written based on ancient Greece culture. The idea of a tragic hero was established in Ancient Greece, tragic heroes are in ancient Greek plays. A tragic hero is a character who is inherently good, has a fatal flaw and loses everything in the end. Creon is Antigone’s tragic hero because his loyalty and obsessive pride influence the conflicts that led to his family’s demise. The conflicts that occur in Antigone are between Creon and various characters such as Haemon, Eurydice, and the protagonist herself, Antigone. All of which conflicts contribute to the demise of Creon’s family. The connection with each person is connected. Antigone kills herself after being banished by Creon, Haemon kills himself when he sees Antigone dead, and Eurydice kills herself after receiving the news of
Before she died she claimed that the reason she died was the same reason as her son, “Against thy deeds, the murderer of thy son (line 1494). She in her death charged thee with being the cause of all their sorrows, his and hers alike.” She blamed the death of Haemon and herself on Creon. Creon realized that he had caused the demise of his family due to his obsessive pride and loyalty. As a result, death conflicts with his ruling in the view that multiple deaths happened during his reign. A tragic hero is a character who has good intentions, has a fatal flaw, and has a downfall. Creon is the tragic hero of Antigone because his intention was to keep Thebes a place where they honor someone who died for their city rather than fight against their city. His loyalty to the throne and his obsessive pride were his fatal flaws. He was oblivious to his fatal flaws which caused the demise of Haemon, Eurydice, and