Antigone
Submitted by mih004 on November 30, 2011
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Antigone
Antigone: A Tragic Hero
What characteristics generate a tragic hero? Must a tragic hero possess superhuman abilities? Should he be immense in size and strength such as Hercules? According to the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, a tragic hero is a good, moral, upstanding person that does not fit into society’s mold, invokes catharsis to the audience, and exhibits flaws that leads to their tragic downfall. These are the traits that a character must uphold in order to be considered as a tragic hero. In Sophocles’ Antigone, Antigone contains all of these traits required for her to be a tragic hero.
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