Antigone While reading Antigone by Sophocles, I could not help but feel confused. With the play named after what I thought was the title character, I assumed that Antigone would be the hero (heroine). As Aristotle described in The Poetics, the tragic hero is one who is noble and because of a character flaw or circumstances beyond their control, ‘fall from a great height.’ Antigone was a noble woman of great moral character, but her strong will and stubbornness ultimately caused her downfall…her death. That would have made Creon, the Kind of Thebes the villain, yet he also seems to fit the mold of the Aristotelian tragic hero. Although at first Creon may be viewed as an evil