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The arrogance that leads her to break a royal law and disrespect her sovereign is Antigone's fatal flaw in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, arrogance describes an exaggerated sense of self, pride. Theban Princess Antigone exhibits arrogance in flagrantly breaking an unjust royal law and in rudely disrespecting King Creon. She owes Creon respect as his niece, protégée, subject and subsequent daughter-in-law. She refuses to respect any of these obligations. She shows respect for the gods, whom she dishonors at the same time by disrespecting Creon, who represents the gods in Thebes.

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