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...
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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...
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Creon As The Tragic Hero In An I am convinced that she was simply a victim of Creon’s stubbornness, therefore leading her away from the role of the tragic heroine. I would simply consider her as a type of “puppet” character that Sophocles ingenuously used to emphasize Creon’s flaw...	2 / 522
CREON: ANTIGONE'S TRUE TRAGIC HERO Creon loses his remaining family; his last remaining son, Haimon, who had been in love with Antigone, killed himself because of her death, and his wife, who had found out about his son's suicide, kills herself as well...	2 / 444
Antigone He is left with his own blood on his hands. Creon's attempts to rights his wrongs often end up being farther from justice than his previous mistakes. Take for example, the segment in which he decides to punish Antigone to her rocky vault...	2 / 397
Antigone: Who Is The Tragic Hero? Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that three people are dead because of his ignorance, which is a punishment worse than death...	3 / 624