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Essay Archive - Antigone
Antigone
While reading Antigone by Sophocles, I could not help but feel confused. With the play named after what I thought was the title character, I assumed that Antigone would be the hero (heroine). As Aristotle described in The Poetics, the tragic hero is one who is noble and because of a character flaw or circumstances beyond their control, ‘fall from a great height.’ Antigone was a noble woman of great moral character, but her strong will and stubbornness ultimately caused her downfall…her death. That would have made Creon, the Kind of Thebes the vil....
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