As George Orwell once said, “A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is felt that man is nobler than the forces that they destroy it." Similarly in Sophocles, Antigone, King Creon can be considered a tragic hero despite his role as a staged villain; because it is his arrogance and his power that destroy him. Although it can be argued that the hero of the play is Antigone and that the play focuses on her journey through pain and suffering; they must come to realize that the true hero is Creon because he goes through the most physical and mental pain and must suffer an irreversible spiral of ruin. Like many other tragic heroes who fit Aristotle's depiction, the hero embodies the characteristics of having a noble birth, a tragic flaw, a reversal of fortune, and ultimately the realization of one's mistakes. To begin with, Creon is a tragic hero because he comes from the birth of the Nobel and holds the high authority of a king. Creon establishes his rule over the kingdom of Thebes by establishing rules of law and order; he begins by stating his position as a traitor...