In the play Antigone the playwright Sophocles presents Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero in the character King Creon. ... Creon's hubris is first evident when he fails to acknowledge the will of the Gods after finding out Antigone has buried Polyneices. Creon argues with his son Haimon who feels that it is wrong to punish Antigone for she went against the law because of her strong ethics and feels that it is her moral obligation. ... One critic states that "Antigone has her revenge when Creon falls into the infancy of human evolution, back into kinship while mourning over his s...

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Sophocles' Antigone and Arthur Miller's All My Sons both fit into this category. ... He also rejected Antigone's beliefs towards what she had done. ... Nevertheless, they do not mean that Antigone is tragic in the classical Greek sense; rather they just mean that Antigone got a bad lot that she didn't deserve. ... This leaves Creon as the only possible tragic figure in Antigone. ... Antigone could not be a tragedy without Creon; Antigone herself doesn't make much of a tragic figure. ...

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In most cases the protagonist's suffering is so severe that he is destroyed by it, and very often the protagonist's entire destruction is made explicit in his death (Antigone, for example). Characteristic of the tragic catastrophe is the fact that not only the protagonist comes to be destroyed, but very often innocent people are also involved in the tragic happenings and lose their lives (for example, Creon's son and wife in "Antigone".) ...

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