The Similarities Between Macbeth And Creon

A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction(http://www.bisd303.org/) Macbeth and Creon are two different characters from two different plays, both are considered to be tragic heroes. Macbeth is a character from the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare where a thane and general is driven by ambition kills and destroys people to obtain what he wants and wont stop until he is king. and Creon a character in the play by Antigone by Sophocles who his stubbornness leads his entire family to kill them selves leaving him alone in the world. Macbeth and Creon are both tragic heroes.
Macbeth rose to power by murdering the king He was already high in society he was a general in the king's …show more content…
Macbeth's flaw was ambition, he wanted to become king no matter what it took, Macbeth said "no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on th'other" (1.7.25-27). Macbeth wanted to king and did not care who he had to kill, in order to become king, and stay king Macbeth murder the king the two guards Banquo and his son, lady MacDuff and her son, once he started to kill he thought that there was no going back and kept killing people, which shows how Macbeth's ambitious lead him to murder so many people with our remorse. Creon's on the other hand was stubborn, he believes that what he is doing is good for the city, and refuses to change his mind, "As long as I am King, Polyneices, is to have no burial: no traitor is going to be honored with the loyal man" (197). Creon creates this law even when if its his nephew body, and sentences his two niece to death for breaking his law, his son tries to change his mind but Creon is to stubborn and choses not to listen to anyone because he believes that he is correct, little does he know that his decision not to bury Polyneices will cost him …show more content…
"these juggling fiends keep the word of promise to our ear, and break it to our hope. Yet I will try the last" (5.7.48-61). he decides to fight even after his army has surrender, Macbeth is murder by Macduff and gets his head cut off. His ambition is his the cause of his death. Creon's fall is different form Macbeth's Creon recognizes his mistake when he hears a prophecy by Teiresias that tells him "the one in a grave before her death, the other, dead, denied the grave" (234). The prophecy also said that if he did not fix what he created he was going to die alone. He realizes what his stubbornness had made him do and decides to "free Antigone from her vault and build a tomb for the body of Polyneices" (235). As he walks into Antigone's cell he finds her hanging from the celling his son kills him self and his wife kills her self. the prophecy became true and Ceron is left alone in the world to die alone. His flaw has been the cause of his fall making both Macbeth and Creon tragic