The characters in the play Antigone all suffer a downfall of some sort. The major characters suffer the
most, though. In this short essay, I will document on how the two main characters, Creon and Antigone,
both inevitably become tragic heroes.
The first example that I observed in Antigone was her self-righteous plight to bury her brother. She
believes that what she is doing is right, and that she will do it no matter what the consequences, because he
was her brother, her blood. This establishes the first part of a tragic hero, the part about doing something
for the good of someone else, r…
