Happy endings are what one secretly hopes for every time they read a story. However, tragedies will never abide to this hope. Tragedies will always have despair and pity in them. Antigone, written by Sophocles, is no exception to this. Aristotle believes there are certain elements that can make a tragedy “perfect”. Some of the elements are: despair and serious implications, a tragic hero, and reversal and recognition of the plot. Aristotle says “a tragedy is a process of imitating an action, which has serious implications.” This means that any tragedy will have some serious consequence(s) and it will all be because of some event or cause. In the play, Antigone decides to go against Creon and bury Polynices’ body; this is what causes
