Pride: A Double Edged Sword

Title: Pride: A Double Edged Sword
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 661 | Pages: 2.8 (approximately 235 words/page)

Pride: A Double Edged Sword

A tragic hero is a character who is known for being of high status. Many of their ideas are wise but it is their one tragic flaw is what leads to their downfall. Antigone and Creon, the main characters in the play “Antigone”, could represent the tragic hero. I believe that Creon is the tragic hero of the story. He fits the description perfectly. The things he said and did show how a man with …showed first 75 words of 661 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 661 total…when he says, “Creon was happy once... and now it has all gone from him” (Exodos, 7 and 10). All of these facts show that Creon is the tragic hero in Antigone. He started off being a noble king who had everything. He let his pride get in the way of what was important and caused his own destruction. He ended up losing everyone in his life just because he was too stubborn to bury his brother.

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