According to Aristotle, a tragic hero is a character, usually in a play, who evokes pity and terror in other characters and the audience; tends to have a higher "moral value" than normal characters; suffers from hamartia, or tragic defect; shows arrogance or excessive pride; and realizes his mistakes throughout the show. In the Greek plays Oedipus Rex and Antigone, both by the famous ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, the characters Oedipus, Antigone and Creon each face their own tragic experiences: Oedipus suffers the irony of the fulfillment of the prophecy of the "Son of Fortune", despite his efforts to avoid it (Sophocles, 434-436); Antigone faces death because of her tenacity in giving Polydice a proper burial (Sophocles, 317); Creon is engulfed by loneliness and remorse as the consequences of his decisions (Sophocles, 349-352). Of these three characters, however, Oedipus from Oedipus Rex seems to be the strongest candidate for a tragic hero, according to Aristotle's definition, due to his prophesied misfortune; high moral value deriving from his authoritative position; doubt in the abilities of the gods and excessive reliance on human judgment; stubbornly closed mind; and gradual realization of the truth. Antigone, Creon, and Oedipus each evoke a feeling of pity and/or terror in the audience in their own way. In Antigone, the chorus, who are shown to sympathize with Antigone throughout much of the play, arouses a sense of suspense and grief over Antigone's capture (Sophocles, 307). Furthermore, Antigone laments her fate, wresting the audience's sympathy, uttering the words: “They make fun of me. Gods of Thebes! why / do you despise me / So, in my opinion, / Alive, not yet dead? (...... half of the paper ...... having actually gouged out his own eyes to truly find wisdom. Each of these three tragic figures almost all meet Aristotle's definition of "tragic hero". evoke pity and/ or terror in the audience or other characters in some form; each of them has a higher moral value than ordinary people, due to their royal blood, each of them suffers from their own hamartia, including the fact that Antigone ignores the rules when applies to her hypocrisy, Creon's impatience and Oedipus' quick temper; they are all full of pride and stubborn in everything they do and every character, except Antigone, eventually experiences the realization of their own mistakes, these aspects of a tragic hero are presented more dramatically with the character of Oedipus than with Antigone or Creon Cited works "Antigone" and "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles