Antigone- Journal #11

The chorus has become less casual. After yesterday's reading and today's discussion I feel like Anouilh has transitioned from a casual narrator of the play to a narrator that mainly focuses what a tragedy is, along with a depressing tone that compliments the chorus' description of a tragedy. The vocabulary that Anouilh uses with the chorus this time seems to focus more on "neutralizing" that goes along with death. Anouilh uses words like tranquility, doubt, numb, silence, stillness, tears etc. One thing that I noticed about all these words is that, they all have something to do with death. I think that this helps create the depressing tone that Anouilh is trying to use in the Chorus. The chorus comments on the tragic elements of the play by mainly describing the concept of a tragedy and how the play so far has been tragic. This is shown when the chorus says how one little thing can topple over and cause a ripple effect that therefore becomes tragic.