Greek Drama
...n quickly decides the deathly fate of Antigone for her crime. All of Creon’s actions lead the final characteristic of a tragic hero nemesis. Creon’s nemesis comes in the firm of Antigone, his son, and wife dieing because of his actions. “Through blood and tears”(1403) Creon learns the affects of his tragic hero personality. The combination of both the traditional tragic hero as well as other personality traits results in a Sophoclean tragic hero. In the play of Antigone, Antigone represents the Sophoclean tragic hero. Though both the traditional and sophoclean tragic heroes are similar, the sophoclean heroes are distinguished by their rigid and courageous loyalty, which leads to a disastrous fate. Antigone shows her courage as well and rigidity in her ways when she tells her sister to “shout it from the rooftops”(100) in reference to her breaking the law. She is so set in her way that Antigone refuses to even think of leaving her brother unburied. Her rigidity results in her death after confessing to having attemp...