Antigone And The Tragic Hero

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The tragic hero in greek culture is a hubris-less person who goes out of their way to do something good. A person of a certain stature who goes above and beyond to do right but has an utter downfall at the end. This prompt is asking to collect two personas who fit with this idea of a tragic hero. One from a real-life scenario and another from the play Antigone that we've gone over in class.

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Thinking about this play further, Creon and similarly in real life Trump both have tragedies. Creon loses his family and learns about the morals of the meaning of life and anagoris. Trump loses his political friends, vice president, and presidential spot which in term makes him realize the type of situation and situation that he put the country and himself and his reputation in.

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Creon, Trump, And The Tragic Hero

"Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical." - Adam Phillips

A tragic hero, both in a literal and illiterate circumstance, is entitled to their downfall only to realize that their magnificence is compared to the rest of society. An entitled hero will learn from nothing, do nothing, and ultimately become the hero's villain until they experience extreme hardships. Such as Creon in Antigone and Trump in real-life standards, both experience a downfall of insurrection-based failures which ultimately shapes their overall perspective on the world at their ending state. Both of these examples, from the past and the present, explicitly state the shame and aspect of society that requires them to be the truest version of themselves in times of their greatest defeats.

Creon's hubris left him with his downfall and the death of his family; this left him with only himself in which he had to rise above becoming a hero on the basis of tragedy. Creon put himself first above all with the troubling doubt of his leadership. He was lazy and he avoided his problems instead of confronting them. He thought that he was above all else until the time of his fate in which he fell from his throne. This in turn caused him to lose everything that he heard dear. After realizing that he wasn't above everyone else and that he could lose everything, he could only sacrifice himself in his last minutes fulfilling himself as the tragic hero.

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States of America, is in fact a tragic hero due to his losses of friends, political allies, and his presidential position which made him realize the harsh reality that he's living in. In the most modern version of this era, Trump has been causing the insurrection of violence, lying to the American people, and violating the basic constitution that he pledged allegiance to for his personal gain. Until now, he has been a person of hierarchy but has shown little to no compassion. As the story unfolds, he starts to lose the people around him. His political allies, the vote to the presidential office, and even the vice president himself. As the story is still going, we see the lies start to fade. When the dust settles, he will have nothing besides himself as he loses everything that he seemingly worked hard for those four years ago. And then and only then may he realize his past mistakes and become a hero after it's too late.

In all times, past, present, and future, a tragic hero will always be required of society. Even through times of universal hardship or tragedy, it requires one to lose everything to rise above and provide their truest form. A tragic hero is what this is and it's an everlasting archetype of society. As we've exposed both Creon and Trump's failures and changes to before tragic hero's we can piece together a larger and more universal view of our current utopia. Unless otherwise, one who loses everything that they care about will become a tragic hero in the end.