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moral value; both Oedipus and Antigone exhibit the characteristics that make heroes considered to be such. In both, however, exists some trait that contradicts those hero characteristics, and ultimately causes the demise of each of them. For Antigone, her piety and loyalty were both her strengths and her achilles heel, so to speak; for Oedipus, his logic and reason worked for him, but his pride and stubbornness did not. It is because they each contain within themselves the reason for their own demise that they are tragic heroes.