Creon Tragic Hero In The Great Gatsby

A tragic hero is the essential constituent part in every tragedy, supporting the entire plot with his or her miserable fate. Thinking about this term in play and book, in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the protagonist Danish Prince Hamlet is the tragic hero due to his irresolution and his skepticism, leading to his death; in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book The Great Gatsby, because of the conflicting desire of earning money and winning love of Daisy, Gatsby keeps living in the worry that his lies may be revealed. Specifically, Creon, the tragic hero in Antigone written by Sophocles, causes the misfortune and ruins others’ lives because of his stubbornness and arrogance.
First of all, Creon’s hubris is showed in his attempt to establish a law that announces

Antigone’s words indicate that Creon “[graces Eteocles’s body] with all the

Knowing that Antigone is his son Haemon’s fiancé, Creon still persists to in executing Antigone as traitor. When Creon quarrels with his son, in his great rage, he commands the sentry to kill Antigone right away, “Take her away, quickly! Wall her up in the tomb, you have your orders. Abandon her there, alone”(971-973). This is too much for Haemon to take. Haemon, as the fiancé of Antigone and a righteous person, tries his best to persuade his father to reconsider his order; however, Haemon fails to do so due to Creon’s stubbornness and disorder. Besides Haemon, Tiresias also warns and persuades Creon not to kill Antigone, “take these things to heart, my son, I warn you. All men make mistakes, it is only human. But once the wrong is done, a man
can turn his back on folly, misfortune too, if he tries to make amends, however low he's fallen, and stops his bullnecked ways. Stubbornness
brands you for stupidity—pride is a crime”(1131-1137).
But Creon disregards Tiresias’s warning, and still insists his decision on killing Antigone. Finally, his stubbornness leads his family to the doom of