"Pity and Awe, reconciliation, exaltation and a sense of emotion purged and purified thereby"1. As this quote from Aristotle's Poetics states, a tragedy must arouse feelings of pity and fear, thus producing a catharsis of these emotions in the audience. In order to arouse the emotions of the audience or reader, writers must produce characters that are known as tragic heroes. A tragic hero is characterized as the hero of a tragedy who is usually well known or prosperous, involves a protagonist who is better than ordinary people, and are neither completely virtuous nor villainous. The most important characteristic of the tragic hero is that he or she must come to a downfall as a result from an error in judgment or a fatal character flaw. Creon, Antigone, and Agamemnon are the tragic heroes in Sophocles' Antigone and Aeschylus' Agamemnon. The tragic heroes of An....

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