... and supporting the moral decisions of opposing characters. For example, the chorus expresses their feelings toward Antigone when she was captured and brought before Creon by saying, "Here is a dark sign from the gods-- what to make of this? That young girl's Antigone! Wretched child of a wretched father " (Sophocles, 78). The chorus establishes their disgust with Antigone even before they realized what she had done, setting the ... the bad guy and he should have no mercy in regards to his degree of punishment, which puts the audience on Creon's side. This is, of course, highly ironic. The...

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