In the play Antigone the playwright Sophocles presents Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero in the character King Creon. According to Aristotle's writing, "Poetics," a tragic hero is a character of noble stature that falls from his grace due to a tragic flaw, which moves the audience to feel pity for him. ... Another component that distinguishes a tragic hero from a non-hero is the character's ability to move the audience to feel pity for him. ... One critic states that "Antigone has her revenge when Creon falls into the infancy of human evolution, back into kinship while mou...

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He also rejected Antigone's beliefs towards what she had done. ... Tragic Figures in Antigone Patrick Mooney Literature 105 A good working definition of a tragic figure, in the Greek mythological sense, would be a person who, through a character flaw, is brought lower than that flaw would merit. ... Antigone cannot be a tragic figure in the classical Greek sense because she didn't have any character faults. ... Antigone could not be a tragedy without Creon; Antigone herself doesn't make much of a tragic figure. ... In contrast, Creon provides many facets of pride, his one gla...

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It made the transitions between scenes, giving actors the chance to enter and leave the playing area, and even announced what characters those actors portrayed. ... In Greek tragedy the tragic situation, in which the characters find themselves, is always a situation of utmost conflict. Studying the plots of a number of Greek tragedies, we find variations of two basic tragic situations: either the fatal situation is brought about by the man's miscalculation of reality or the characters find themselves between two conflicting principles and are confronted with a choice, the results of which...

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