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 the ....
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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 h ....
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