Role Of Creon In Antigone

What is a tragic hero? Antagone is an interesting play with many interesting characters included in it. Antigone who is a women who just wanted to give her loving brother, Polyneices a proper burial. Creon Antigone’s uncle who sought after giving Polyneices the title of traitor. There is a right and a wrong and in my opinion Creon was in the wrong, i mean by making stupid, and stubborn decisions that would soon lead to his downfall, making him the tragic hero of this play. A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction.

In the play antigone probably the most logic character to pick as a tragic hero would be antigone’s uncle creon. Creon is probably one of the most stubborn, ignorant character in antigone that was looking for someone to blame for Eteocles’s death. But creaon was so blind to the fact that this would lead to his emotional downfall in sorrow and distress because of his haemon and creon’s loving wife.

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Well it all began when the prophecy of Polyneices and Eteocles became a reality. The prophecy was that Polyneices and Eteocles would kill each other in battle, these two tried to avoid the prophecy but in the end it was fate. When Creon found out the news he was so furious, so furious he let it consume his brain and blame polyneices for Eteocles death. Polyceines soon was given the title traitor and was banned from having a proper burial. This was the first mistake that creon made that soon resulted in his downfall. After that Antigone arrives in the kingdom where all this is happening, Thebes, and found out everything. So this resulted in Antigone burying her brother. This was forbidden by the stubborn uncle and resulted in Antigone being thrown in prison. This was Creon's second