... information that can potentially prevent downfall, and the hero's ability to either act upon or reject this new information constitutes blame for their fall. In Jean Anouilh's Antigone, Creon makes a final plea to convince Antigone that dying for her brother Polynices is foolish, making sure she is aware of the "squalid story " she is about to put her "little bloodstained name to ... "" (41). Once it is revealed that she would be dying for a traitor, Antigone still refuses to be saved, proclaiming "I've chosen death"" (48), proving that her previous ignorance of the situation was not the...

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