Creon and Antigone as Tragic Heroes in Sophocles Antigone :: Antigone essays

Creon and Antigone as Tragic Heroes     Creon and Antigone, main characters in the Greek calamity Antigone by Sophocles share some of the same characteristics that make up a tragic hero, but to varying degrees. Antigone, daughter of her mother/grandmother, Jocasta, and father, Oedipus is head strong, proud, and stubborn. She had triple siblings, Ismene her sister, and two brothers Eteocles and Polyneices who found there deaths at the end of each others blade in battle over which would become king of Thebes. Antigones pride voluminosity and loyalty is revealed when Polyneices is denied proper burial by her uncle and king Creon. The two buttheads in the political for Creon and personal for Antigone situation and bring about the downf every(prenominal) of the royal family.   Aristotles view on a tragic hero is someone that would engage to be held in high standards (royalty) in order to evoke benignity and anxiety in the audience. Creon and Antigone are r oyalty and share the most authoritative aspect of a tragic hero, each have a tragic flaw. Both of the two characters have an inability to compromise or still reason with. Antigones tragic flaw was amplified by her loyalty for her brother she acted irrational, in not taking preparation or thoroughness into consideration when burying her brother. and more when confronted by Creon, himself she disrespected and basically told him to silence himself because his words were distasteful to her. So then sealing her death by becoming an immediate sick person for the wrong cause... anything against Creons will.   Creon, in his paranoia was plagued with the feeling of incompetence and need to establish dominance. His rewrite that no one would bury Polyneices tho provoked the people of Thebes into thought of him as insensitive to their culture. When his ruling was disobeyed, only led him to him to believe that conclave was about and that no matter, family or not, he would punish Antigone, causing a chain reaction of events causing the loss of his entire family, except Ismene. expiration the audience experiencing pity and fear for both characters.   Neither Creon nor Antigone, were either all bad or all good. Creon while tyrant like only wanted Thebes to flourish, Antigone while showing honor to her brother never stop to really consider the effect that her actions would have on others.