ANTIGONE - EPISODE TWO AND STASIMON TWO

EPISODE TWO SUMMARY

- Chorus suggests they don't have a lot of sympathy for Antigone's defiance towards the State = "mad defiance." 

- Sentry is again essential for plot progression - outlines how they unburied Polynices' body and Antigone rushes in to bury her brother again = she denied nothing when interrogated by them. 

- Creon gives her a chance to deny the fact she's heard of the decree, but she declares she was "well aware." = defends her actions by saying the god's did not issue the proclamation and that Creon is a "fool." 

- Creon believes that Ismene is guilty also without cause.

- Antigone talks on behalf of the chorus and suggests they agree with her.

- Use of STICHOMYTHIA in this scene to build tension. 

- Antigone defines how glory in death is the greatest honour again, alike to the Prologue, describes Creon as a tyrant in his use of "ruthless power" to please himself. = Also that death rituals should be the same for all. 

- Creon shows his misogynistic self - no woman will "lord it over me" and imagery of Antigone being a horse that should be broken in. 

- Chorus present Ismene as not guilty, she starts to protest she is but Antigone doesn't want her to = like shared honour for doing nothing, tells her she does not grudge her survival. 

- Creon decides to kill Antigone, despite her being engaged to his son. 

ESTABLISHING DIKE AND PHYSIS VS NOMOS

- Declares that it wasn't Zeus who issues the proclamation in defense of her actions. 

- States that it is Creon's "wounded pride" that is fuelling his actions and she was not about to face the "retribution…