Antigone: Changing Views Of The Chorus
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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 th ....
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.... utilized by
Sophocles as a suspenseful introduction to Creon's orders concerning the body
of Polynices.
The chorus's next appearance blatantly shows their biased attitudes
against Antigone and her exiled father Oedipus. At this point they still sing
praise for King Creon and his unwavering decisions concerning the law which was
placed upon the city regarding the body of Polynices: “When he weaves in the
laws of the land, and the justice of the gods that binds his oaths together, he
and ....
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