Antigone (creon As The Tragic :: essays research papers

Creon as the Tragic Hero In Antigone write by Sophocles, Creon is the tragical hero. Creon is the tragic hero because of his error in judgement, fractious fashion of ruling Thebes, his change, and all the tragedy brought on by his actions. Although Creon changed tho when acourier told him there would be a tragic endpoint because of all his actions, he did try to correct what he had done.Creon ordered that Polyneices proboscis be left out to be eaten by vultures andwhile dogs because Polyneices rebelled against his brother Esteocles decree in Thebes. In this incident, both Polyneices and Esteocles (the ruler of Thebes) were killed. Creons stubborn way of ruling influenced everything that occurred because of him giving Esteocles a bollock burial and leaving Polyneices carcass out to be eaten. Antigone, the sister of Polyneices and Esteocles, thought it was wrong that Esteocles had a formal burial and Polyneices was left out to be eaten by grand dogs and vultures. Antigone whence decided it was her duty to bury Polyneices, so she disobeyed Creons decree and cover Polyneices body with dirt and wine. Unfortunately, Antigone was caught in the act of burying Polyneices so, Creon sentenced her (his own male childs finance) to be put into a stone vault, to die of starvation and for Polyneices body to be uncovered. Then a messenger came and told Creon that there would be a tragic ending because of his error in judgement. Creon then quickly ordered Antigone to be freed and Polyneices to be buried, but he was too late. In the meantime, a messenger told Eurydice (Creons married woman) that her son Haimon was dead and that his death was caused by Creons actions. Eurydice killed herself because the son she loved mostwas dead. In the meantime, Creon discovered that Polyneices body had been eaten by vultures and wild dogs so he quickly went to the vault Antigone was put in. WhenCreon arrived at the vault, he found Antigone had hung herself with her wedding dressan d his son Haimon had killed himself because of the death of Antigone. Creon returned home to tell his wife Eurydice of all the tragedy caused by his own error in judgement, lone(prenominal) to find Eurydice dead too.