Antigone Vs Creon Character Analysis

In the story “Antigone” you are introduced to two characters, Antigone and Creon, they both share traits of a tragic hero, but Creon better fits a tragic hero then Antigone does.

Creon survives the whole story and most of it revolves around him even though the story is named after Antigone.

First off, Creon’s world shatters around him in a matter of 12 hours, he loses so much because of one choice he makes and won’t change.

Creon wants to die after seeing his wife, son, and niece kill themselves in less than an hour, but Choragos tells him he will die when he is meant to, “All that will come when it will” (Sophocles 138).

The story ends with Creon’s world falling apart which is one reason he is a tragic hero.

Secondly, “Antigone” also ends

with Antigone, Eurydice, and Haimon all killing themselves.
Creon finds out about Eurydice killing herself because the death of her son and niece “and her heart/ Welcomed the knife her own hand guided” (Sophocles 120-121).
The story included a lot of bloodshed and death of other characters besides Creon, which also makes Creon a tragic hero.
Lastly, Creon’s very stubborn and has the tendency to always be right until it’s too late.
“You consider it right for a man of my years and experience/ To go to school to a boy?” (Sophocles 97-98).
Creon’s tragic flaw is the need to always be right which ends in a lot of death and bloodshed which is again another reason he is the tragic hero of the story.
Throughout the whole story Sophocles focuses on Creon and his mistake and the outcomes which makes him the tragic hero of the story “Antigone”.