Aristotle’s idea of a tragic hero is of someone who has makes a mistake and then goes through a time of misery and or despair. Creon is a good person, but he makes a mistake that costs him his whole family. That causes him misery and pain, he doesn’t realize that what he was doing was wrong until he does it, and he tries to fix it but ends up making it worse.
According to his definition Creon is the tragic hero. Creon states, “I saw my country headed for ruin, I should not be afraid to speak out plainly; and I need hardly remind you that I would never have any dealings with an enemy of the people. No one values friendship more highly than I; but we must remember that friends made at the risk of wrecking our Ship are not real friends at all” …show more content…
He also reiterates his decree regarding Polyneices and asks the chorus for their support in this matter. The elders agree, because they do not want to die.”(Thorburn). Creon would have realized sooner that what he was doing was wrong if his people would have just told him! He realized that was he was doing was wrong to late and because of that his family is gone! All because his people didn’t have the balls to go say something! He lost his entire family because of them! “Creon tries to modify the arrangement and take Antigone from her rocky chamber into the upper world, but Antigone has already committed suicide”(Thorburn). Creon finally begins to realize his mistake and tries to fix it. But he realizes it to lake and because of that he loses everything. Creon’s messenger states, “Her curse is upon you for the deaths of both.” Then Creon said: “It is right that it should be. I alone am guilty. I know it, and I say it. Lead me in. Quickly, friends. I have neither life nor substance. Lead me in”(Sophocles 807) After Creon kills his son’s fiancé he feels bad about it because it cost him his entire family. That is his tragedy he is starting to feel that. “Creon accepts his guilt for the death of his loved ones. As he laments over the bodies of his wife and his son, he calls himself their slayer, declaring that he is "no more a live man than one dead”(Bloom). He is starting to accept that what …show more content…
Yes, her brother may have died and some could argue that that was a tragedy, but no, it was not. Creon has a much larger tragedy than she did. Antigone tragedy was a tiny speck compared to what Creon had to go through. “Creon has similarly divided critics between censure and sympathy. Despite the play's title, some have suggested that the tragedy is Creon's, not Antigone's, and it is his abuse of authority and his violations of personal, family, and divine obligations that center the drama's tragedy”(Burt). Creon goes through a true tragedy, Antigone does not. Creon did many things that caused him to have a very bad tragedy, but he was a hero at the beginning. Thus making him a Tragic