Creon The Tragic Hero
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Antigone tells the story of Creon, King of Thebes. The situation arises when our tragic hero, Creon, makes a declaration regarding the death of a traitor. Polyneices was killed in battle and was to remain unburied to demonstrate the punishment for treason. Antigone, Polyneices' sister, rebels aga ....
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.... her tomb. Antigone had hung herself and Polynese discovers her body. Polynese, enraged by the death of his love, engaged his father with a sword but instead, ended up killing himself. Creon returns to his castle to suffer with the results of his actions and to wonder what other punishment could be worse than the death of his son. He then finds his wife had committed suicide after hearing of her son's death.
In the end of the play Creon is left with feelings of remorse and regret. He is fa ....
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Word count: 290
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
