Essay Archive - Antigone: Changing Views of The Chorus
Antigone: Changing Views of The Chorus
The chorus, a group of common people who follow the actions of the play
Antigone, waver in their support of either Antigone or Creon, depending on their
actions during a particular part of the story-line. Early in the play it is
evident that they are extremely pro-Creon, but a short time later they seem to
sway into the direction of Antigone and support her actions. This incongruency
about the them, however, was an extremely interesting feature of this Sophocles
drama, causing the reader to question the reliability of the chorus.
The opening lines from the chorus merely inform....
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