Antigone #11

The tone of the chorus shifts dramatically in this part of the play. At first they seemed to empathize with Creon and were just listing events of the story and giving background. In tonight's reading they gave a long definition of what tragedy is and explained it to the audience. They said the word "you" a lot more frequently, which I thought could be Anouilh's way of breaking the fourth wall because he is drawing the audience in by use of the word "you". This breaking of the fourth wall serves significant because it reconnects the audience to the play and assures that they understand where it is going. It seems to me that Anouilh is very direct with explaining the play and intentions to the audience, but when it comes to the actual characters of the play, they are much more ambiguous. This lends the audience to confusion because there is times in the play in which they do not know what to believe, and this set up for lies and betrayal came from the beginning chorus because they highlighted all of the past betrayals of Antigone's family. Since the chorus in this part still adds to the lies it essentially has the same motives as the beginning chorus but just goes about it in a different way. I'm also curious as to if the chorus is a single man or still a group of people? I feel it could go either way.