Creon Arrogance

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Creon, the king of Thebes, is the tragic hero of Sophocles’ Antigone because he demonstrates the tragic flaw of hubris, which eventually leads to the extreme, inevitable punishment of his wife and son's death, teaching the audience that excessive pride and abuse of authority results in negative consequences.

Through Creon’s close-mindedness and arrogance when speaking to others, he meets Aristotle's tragic hero, a tragic flaw, hubris. In the play, Scene V establishes Creon as an unfit and aggressive ruler when told his fate. A blind prophet, Teiresias warns him “...a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong”. And repairs the evil that is. The only crime is pride” (Sophocles 232). In response to this warning, Creon accuses Teiresias,