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 the rea....
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