Pride In Antigone

Working Title Family. Respect. Honor. Loyalty. Love. All are certain characteristics that Antigone carries out in order to maintain the role of a tragic heroine in Sopocles’ drama Antigone. In the Greek drama, these were considered topics that gave interest to the audience. A tragic hero, or heroine, can be classified as someone who makes a judgment error that can eventually lead to his or her tragic downfall or destruction (Willocks). Within Sopocles’ Antigone, Antigone carries out the role of a tragic heroine by: expressing errors of judgment, exhibiting excessive pride, experiencing a reversal of fortune, and receiving a fate this is greater than deserved. As a tragic heroine, Antigone experiences a major downfall, which is caused by her tragic …show more content…
When Creon denies the request of a proper burial for Polynices, Antigone then knowledge’s her peripeteia. Because Antigone goes forth with the burial of her brother, King Creon sentences her to death. Although she is held accountable and is guilty of breaking the law of the state, Antigone still remains loyal to what she believes in and recognizes her responsibility. Creon questions Antigone, “Now, tell me, not in many words but briefly, did you know that an edict had forbidden this?” Creon is asking this question because he is the one who made sure the edict was forbidden in public. He once again asked if she then dare to transgress the law and he response was, “Yes, for it was no Zeus who had published that edict; not such are the laws set among men by the Justice who dwells with the gods below.” In an easier vernacular, Antigone is saying that she is standing strong for the laws that she believes in, which are the unwritten laws of the gods. While Antigone is committing this crime to the State caused by her flaw, she gets herself tied under her reversal of fortune, and then causes her to commit