Sophocles, in his book “Antigone”, identities Creon as the tragic hero that falls due to his hubris: being prideful, stubborn, and arrogant. A tragic hero is one who is in or born into a high rank and later loses respect, power, or honor because of a tragic flaw that the hero had. Creon inherited the throne after fate took the lives of Polynices and Eteocles, Creon later makes a law that forbids anyone from buring the traitor Eteocles because he had killed his own people. He later sees himself doing wrong after a seer names Teresius enters and prophesies his downfall. Creon sees that his stubbornness has gotten the better of him and orders his guards to bury Eteocles and to see his son, Haemon. His son later commits suicide after Creon ordered
