Changing Views of the Chorus in Antigone

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 read…