1. Tragic Hero of Antigone
... the law of forbidding the proper burial of Polynecies just for the sake of being mean, he did it because he believed that Polynecies was a traitor and Eteocles was loyal. A citation from the play said by Creon to explain how he is noble would be, "Polynecies, I say is to have no burial This is my command and you can see the ... he does these arrogant things, he doesn't do what the gods want because he thinks that, since he is king, he could do whatever he wants with his absolute power. A citation from the play said by Teiresias to help explain his tragic flaw would be, "But a good man y...
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