In the play Antigone, both the titular character, Antigone, and her uncle, Creon, are tragic heroes. To truly see how both are tragic heroes, one would need to break down the definition of tragic hero, and see how each part applies to both characters. The first part of the definition states that a tragic hero is a person who gets caught in a series of events that lead to disaster. For both Creon and Antigone this could be seen as Creon’s decision “that no one may bury or mourn [Polynices], but see him unlamented, unburied”(Lines 29-31) . This leads to Antigone deciding to doing so anyways, which sets of the chain of events that leads to each of their deaths. Due to her pride, as well as her moral compass, Antigone was found with her fiance
