Creon Tragic Hero Analysis

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Creon The Tragic hero Family arguments occur everywhere everyday, some bigger than others, Creon the Tragic Hero had some problems with Antigone, who many people believed was the tragic hero, but She doesn’t meet all the requirements of a tragic hero like Creon the King of Thebes does. First and foremost Creon meets the “Noble Stature” Requirement. The audience learns that Creon lives as the King of Thebes when Chorus says, “Here comes Creon the king of Thebes “(Line 179). Creon affected the people of Thebes by the laws he created, “ No he may be my sisters daughter but she’ll not escape my harshest punishment “ (Lines 550-552) Creon also had a huge tragic flaw. Secondly Creon’s tragic flaw consists of too much pride. His pride bends…show more content…
What more do you want? Creon: Me? Nothing with that, I have everything” (lines 564-565) When Creon told Antigone he’d torture her, she hung herself, causing some other reactions. Creon’s excessive punishment shortly took place after Antigone’s death. Haemon is so upset that he tries to stab his father but misses and decided to Stab himself “Haemon has been killed. No stranger shed his blood. Chorus: At his fathers hand? Or did he kill himself? Messenger: By his own hand angry at his father for murderer “ but this was yet another dominoes piece, because after this Eurydice could not take the pain of her dead son and decided to also kill herself “Stabbed with a sharp sword at the altar she let her darkening eyesight fail once she had cried out in sorrow for the glorious fate of Megareos, who died some time ago, and then again for Haemon, and then with he last breath, she called out evil things against you, the killer of your sons” even though Creon was extremely prideful, he learned from all of
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