Question

What role does the chorus play in the first half of Antigone?

A)It ties up all the loose ends in the play.

B)It comments on the action and provides background information.

C)It offers insights into the characters’ motivations.

D)It explains the play’s events to the audience in simple language.

Answer 1

B.

It comments on the action and provides background information.

Answer 2

The role that the chorus plays in the first half on Antigone is to comment on the action and provide background information. Option B is correct.

In Antigone, the chorus and chorus leader represent who embodied wisdom.

Generally, chorus in in plays as well as musicals are intended to provided further information to the audience or the reader.

Antigone is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC.