What risks or sacrifices would a family member take to see another family member get proper burial? Would you risk your life to do so? A tragic hero “must experience a dramatic change in fortune (from properly to misfortune), must be morally good, have a heroic statue, true to life, and consistent in his or her actions” (Willocks). Antigone defies Creon decree despite the consequences she may face, in order to honor her deceased brother. Within the play, Antigone best fit the description for a tragic hero because she makes an error in judgment, she experiences a reversal in fortune , she shows excessive pride, she recognizes her fate because of her own actions, and she receives a fate that’s greater than deserve. Antigone can be described
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Antigone shows excessive pride when she tells her sister, Ismene that she is going to bury her brother even if Creon says no. Antigone says, “Urge me so, and I shall hate you soon. The dead will justly hate you too. Say that I am mad, and madly let me risk the worst that I can suffer and the best: a death which martyrdom can render blest.’’(Sophocles 168). Antigone is saying that no matter what her sister Ismene or Creon do she will not stop until her brother gets a proper burial. Antigone shows excessive pride to show how serious she is about her brother not having a proper …show more content…
I am last to come, and lost the most of all. My life is still in my hands. Yet I come (I hope I come) towards a father’s love, beloved by my mother; and by you my darling brother-loved. Yes, all of you, whom these my hands have washed, prepared and sped with ritual to your burials. And now, sweet Polyneices, dressing you, I’ve earned this recompense, through richly honored you the just will say. No husband dead and gone, no children lisping ‘mother’ ever could have forced me to withstand the city to its face. On what principles do I assert so much? Just this: a husband dead, another can be found; a child, replaced; but once a brother’s lost (mother and father dead and buried too) no other brother can be born or grows again. That’s my principle, which Creon stigmatized as criminal-my principle for honoring you my dearest brother. So taken, so am I led away: a spinster still, uncelebrated, barren and bereft of joys; no children to my name. An outcast stripped of sympathy I go alive towards these sepulchers of death. What ordinance, what law of heaven broken? What god left for such as me to cast my eyes towards? And whom address, when sacraments must now. Be castigized as sacrilege? And if things are smiled upon by heaven, why, when I’m dead I’ll know I sinned. But if I find the sin was theirs- God spare them retribution much more
Antigone shows excessive pride when she tells her sister, Ismene that she is going to bury her brother even if Creon says no. Antigone says, “Urge me so, and I shall hate you soon. The dead will justly hate you too. Say that I am mad, and madly let me risk the worst that I can suffer and the best: a death which martyrdom can render blest.’’(Sophocles 168). Antigone is saying that no matter what her sister Ismene or Creon do she will not stop until her brother gets a proper burial. Antigone shows excessive pride to show how serious she is about her brother not having a proper …show more content…
I am last to come, and lost the most of all. My life is still in my hands. Yet I come (I hope I come) towards a father’s love, beloved by my mother; and by you my darling brother-loved. Yes, all of you, whom these my hands have washed, prepared and sped with ritual to your burials. And now, sweet Polyneices, dressing you, I’ve earned this recompense, through richly honored you the just will say. No husband dead and gone, no children lisping ‘mother’ ever could have forced me to withstand the city to its face. On what principles do I assert so much? Just this: a husband dead, another can be found; a child, replaced; but once a brother’s lost (mother and father dead and buried too) no other brother can be born or grows again. That’s my principle, which Creon stigmatized as criminal-my principle for honoring you my dearest brother. So taken, so am I led away: a spinster still, uncelebrated, barren and bereft of joys; no children to my name. An outcast stripped of sympathy I go alive towards these sepulchers of death. What ordinance, what law of heaven broken? What god left for such as me to cast my eyes towards? And whom address, when sacraments must now. Be castigized as sacrilege? And if things are smiled upon by heaven, why, when I’m dead I’ll know I sinned. But if I find the sin was theirs- God spare them retribution much more