"Antigone" traits of the characters, themes,and purpose of the prologue
..., and the chorus) are potential traitors and greedy schemers. He is distrustful of the others and therefore places too much trust in his own descisions. His true enemy is own nature. He is proud and stubborn and this leads to his downfall, but for all his faults ; creon has the interests of the state at heart. Tragic Flaw: (harmartic) That element of creons personallity which eventually causes his downfall pride(hubris) is creons fatal flaws Creon - He is a new leader - he becomes overly selfconfident -he does not take advice -he realizes his mistakes too late to effectively do anything about them Purpose of prologue: to explain the events that took place before the plays action and to introduce the main conflict of the play...