Antigone: The Tragic Hero

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“Tomorrow is tomorrow furture cares future cures and we must mind today” to me living in the present and not worrying about what happened in the past. Antigone in my opinion is the tragic hero due to the fact of listening to her heart and not her leader. In Greek Mythology there are plenty of heros suchs as Hurclules. But Antigone on the other hand doesn’t need great feats of strength. She is really stubborn according to what Ismene was leading us to believe, Antigone did just about about anything to honor her deceased brother, and Antigone and Ismene are two serperate characters on what they believe and how that do things. Antigone seemed to be somewhat stubborn when it came to how she acted and how she though of her leader. “Theres no

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