Antigone

Title: Antigone
Category: Literature / English | Words: 506 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

Antigone

The tragic hero of a play is the one who has a high stance in society, but because of his/her tragic flaw, a fundamental characters weakness, he/she receives a tremendous fall from his/her good fortune. In the play Antigone, Antigone suffers an unjust punishment, which causes her to fall from the royal family line to a criminal status and is put to death. Thus Antigone is the tragic heroine in this play …showed first 75 words of 506 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 506 total…laws and stubbornness, Antigone has brought a death that is undeserved, which makes the audiences arouses pity for such characters. With Antigone’s role in society, death is not a factor but somehow it happens, makes the audiences fearful of their own destinies. Antigone’s decision to give her brother Polyneices a burial, which turns out to be a tragic flaw, thus, Antigone becomes the tragic heroine in the play of Antigone without a doubt.

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