How Is Antigone A Tragic Hero

It takes a great deal of faith and courage to put family before the state. Would someone risk her own life to do what is right for her family? These are some of the challenges that Antigone, the tragic hero in Sophocles play Antigone, faces. She is torn between the decision of doing the right thing to bury her brother Polyneices or be a good citizen and follow the law and not bury him. Antigone, being stubborn as she is, does the right thing and buries her brother. By her doing that, it shows that she has an enormous amount of courage and bravery. Antigone is also the tragic hero of the play. She is the tragic hero because she knows what is right and does it but in the process loses her life. In Sophocles play Antigone, the tragic hero is Antigone because she risk her own life for the rights of her dead brother, she shows an amazing amount of courage and bravery, she does the right thing no matter the consequences, she is a bit stubborn, and she dies because of her refusal to obey and because she was not “loyal” to Creon. …show more content…
Antigone’s sister, Ismene, even warned Antigone that she would die by saying, “Go then, if you must, toward your end- Fool, wonderful fool, and loyal friend.” (Sophocles 168). Ismene was trying to tell Antigone that Creon would surly kill her if she advanced with the burial. Being the stubborn girl that she is, Antigone progressed with burying her brother showing no fear of her punishment, or