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Antigone
Title: Antigone
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 735 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Antigone
John Deming
Creon: A Tragic Hero
Sophocles’ play Antigone is a clear example of a tragic play. Tragic heroes, such as Creon, spend a great deal of time trying to avoid their fates. But in the end, fate prevails, and the tragic hero is doomed. Creon was an excellent character to portray as a tragic hero. He was a good person, good to his family and the people of Thebes. Creon used free will to …showed first 75 words of 735 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 735 total…suicide after she found out the news of her deceased son. Creon committed suicide in his palace.
Creon is characterized as a tragic hero in these ways. Without these characteristics, Creon wouldn’t have been a tragic hero and Antigone wouldn’t be a tragic play. Creon brought this onto himself without even realizing it. He thought he would be better off ignoring his fate, but free will just led him back to his doom.
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