Sophocles Antigone, Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, Jean Anouilhs Antigone and Ridley Scotts Blad :: Prometheus Bound Antigone Blade Runner

Sophocles Antigone, Aeschylus Prometheus Bound, Jean Anouilhs Antigone and Ridley Scotts Blade Runner The representative population of a community is not comfortable when confronted by an individual who defies the laws that bind them. Whether or not the laws or the powers behind them are just, the populace must push- shovel in list with any ch wholeenge to their authority. In some cases, the community, fearful of a the right way regime, will side with that power and avoid the risks associated with rebellion. Others find the tyranny alike unjust to stand idly by and, risking their lives, join with other insubordinate individuals against it. The group of characters named as Chorus in both Sophocles Antigone and Aeschylus Prometheus Bound rule the rebellion of the titular characters against their respective authorities. In both plays, the Choruses (heretofore distinguished as Chorus A for Antigone and Chorus P for Prometheus Bound) recognize the ruling pow ers as both dangerous and tyrannical and are sympathetic to the plights of Antigone and Prometheus. However, the similarities between the twain groups end at this point. While the actions of Chorus A are intelligible given that their maturity has made them keenly aware of their own mortality, they front mundane and self-serving in comparison to the noble selflessness of the untried Chorus P. Chorus A are introduced as the old citizens of Thebes (p65). The order of age upon their demeanor is immediately evident in their description of the drink down of Polynices and his armies. The elders are certainly triumphant, calling out Glory ...great beam of the sun, brightest of all that ever rose against the seven gates of Thebes, you burn through the iniquity at last (117-19). In these lines there is also a tone of relief. Born of freedom from the fear of their enemys ...vast maw gaping closing down around our seven gates, his spears thirsting for the kill... (132-3 4). These men are not the brave Theban warriors who fought with Eteocles. They are the elder citizens who cowered through the night of war hoping for, and receiving, Victory resplendent in the morning... (164). They are cautious enough to stay out of the physiological battle and they display the same self-interest when involved in the coming political confrontation between Antigone and Creon.