In my opinion, a tragic hero is someone who “saves” everyone but theoretically doesn’t survive himself. The character may have achieved all he first wanted although by the end of the story, they might have learned other opinions but eventually loses everything. According to Aristotle a greek tragedy means, “The function of a …show more content…
Antigone makes decisions according to her beliefs, even if she ends up in trouble for it. Creon has hubris and self worth, which proves that he has everything to be the tragic hero in the story. Creon is also the only character that was theoretically left with nothing. Everybody he cared about chose their own fate of committing suicide, which left him only with his kingdom.
The story has given us the conclusion that the tragic hero in the play Antigone, is Creon. The story has proved that making the right choices affect our life. He is described as the tragic hero because he has shown anagnorisis by surviving all events, although the people he mostly cares about was taken away from him because of his stubbornness, inflexibility and his cold hearted personality. Nevertheless, if one hold their head up too high, they may fall from grace into a deep dark hole with no