is a Shakespearean tragedy; * It concerns the fortunes of one person – the hero. * The hero is of high birth and position. * He has many good qualities. * He has a great weakness in his character. * This flaw is played on by circumstance. * This flaw causes suffering and misfortune to innocent people. * These events horrify and fascinate the audience. * These events lead to the hero’s death. * Audience feels pity‚ fear and a sense of wastage at the end. Act
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A True Tragic Hero Batman‚ Superman‚ and the Green Lantern all fit the characteristics of a hero. The word “hero” typically evokes positive feelings and has a positive connotation surrounding it. But what about “tragic hero‚” does it? The English Department at California State University in Sacramento states that a tragic hero must be noble‚ possess heroic qualities‚ and acquire a tragic flaw leading to their demise. Though initially heroic by nature‚ the character’s tragic fall must also include
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Sophocles’ Antigone‚ there has been an argument regarding the true tragic hero of the play. It is a commonly held certainty that Antigone must be the tragic character merely because she and the drama share the same name. This is‚ of course‚ a very reasonable supposition. Surely Sophocles must have intended her to be viewed as the protagonist; otherwise‚ he would not have given her the name as the play’s title. However‚ analytically speaking‚ Creon seems to fit the category of a tragic hero more accurately
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I think that Antigone is not a tragic hero‚ a tragic hero has one fatal flaw that leads to their downfall‚ Antigone had multiple downfalls that lead to her final demise. Most people think that she is a Tragic hero because of the flaw they see. The most commonly recognized flaw would be her loyalty to the gods‚ and going against creans decrees against proper burial rights for her brother Polynesus. . Antigone’s most recognizable flaw is that she disobeyed Creon’s decrees to not let Polynesus have
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A common theme in literature is that of the tragic hero‚ a character that has suffered due to a flaw in his or her own self. Antigone by Sophocles has a few examples of this trope. King Creon excellently fits this mold of tragic hero. The flaw that makes Creon a tragic hero is his paranoia. Creon often believes his citizens and even close friends and relatives are out to get him. He is convinced that there are “anarchists putting their heads together’ in opposition to his rule all over the city
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In Sophocles’ Antigone‚ the tragic hero is a woman that believes in her heart far stronger than that of her leader’s rule: Antigone. A tragic hero is the character in a tragedy that experiences a downfall because of some kind of flaw. This flaw is referred to as the tragic flaw. In order for a character to be considered as a tragic hero‚ they must possess 4 important characteristics: First‚ they must experience a reversal of fortune due to an error in the hero’s judgment. Second‚ recognition that
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DRAM-3713-300 12 February 2015 Consideration of Antigone Antigone is a tragedy that tests even today’s readers with the dilemma of man’s law and the laws of man’s religion. One can easily see the side of her moral obligation as well as her obligation of relation and love‚ since Polyneices was also her brother. Such a dilemma‚ crossed with the law of the land and the law of her faith‚ still vex men and women today. Although Antigone met a tragic end‚ the tragic hero in this story is Creon. Below‚ why
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Daisy Cruz Mrs. Eglitis English 2H 6 January 2016 Tragic Hero A tragic hero‚ someone “who is not eminently good and just‚ whose misfortune is brought about not by vice or depravity‚ but by some error or frailty‚" is a big part of the play "Antigone". Creon is depicted as the tragic hero of "Antigone" because of the characteristics that he shows in the play including his tragic flaw‚ hubris. Hubris is the characteristic of having excessive pride and self confidence and by the end of the play
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Comp 2 Tragic Hero: Antigone or Creon? In Antigone‚ a play written by Sophocles‚ the characters Creon and Antigone both fit into a few of Aristotle’s criteria. They are both choices of tragic heroes. They both are neither good nor evil in the extreme but just a man like any of us; they are both born of a better social status than most of us‚ and both have a tragic flaw in their characters. But even though the story is called Antigone‚ it is not necessary for Antigone to be the tragic hero.
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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
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