Examples Of Pride Over Family In Antigone

Pride over Family

The play, Antigone is written by Sophocles and tells the story of Antigone, who believes that humanity or the “natural” laws have priority over Creon’s laws and disobeys his instructions accordingly. In Antigone, the tragic hero portrays someone who makes a mistake, usually due to their blindness of their own self pride, and takes advantage of their own power, which eventually leads to their downfall. The tragic hero also realizes his/her mistake and eventually will accept their consequences He recognizes his weaknesses, and his downfall from his own self-pride, stubbornness, and controlling demands. Creon, the uncle of Antigone and father to Haemon, is the tragic hero in the play Antigone.

Creon portrays the tragic hero

As Antigone goes against Creon's law, she is put into danger because what she believes is right and what the state's law says is right contradict each other. When antigone brings up “he is my brother still, and yours;...but i shall not abandon him” Ismene is shocked that she would “Challenge creon to his face” (345). This has already given Antigone the mindset that even her own sister is against her. Antigone wants to go against Creon, to stand up for what she believes in, and what she believes is right for her brother. Creon confronts Antigone, “so you chose flagrantly to disobey my law?” as she acknowledges it “Naturally! Since Zeus never promulgated such a law, Nor will you find that justice,” (358). Antigone goes through great lengths to go against Creon and prove herself as a strong individual. Antigone shows her stubbornness of having to go against her uncle’s laws and show that people should not follow the one path of someone. Although Antigone never does do anything terribly wrong, where she has to realize where she went wrong and accept consequences, unlike Creon where he realizes and accepts