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How would you direct the actors playing Antigone and Ismene in the prologue? What themes and relationships would you intend to show?
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How would you direct the actors playing Antigone and Ismene in the prologue? What themes and relationships would you intend to show? I would set my version of Antigone in a Nazi Germany Concentration Camp and Antigone and Ismene would be Guards in the Camp and Kreon would be the Chief Guard. To show the conflict between Eteocles and Polyneices by saying that Eteocles was pro-Hitler and Polyneices was anti-Hitler. Antigone and her sister, Ismene argue because of their different opinions. Ismene feels that although she loved her brother, he is dead, and they should respect the law and not bury him with honour whereas Antigone is the complete opposite, the prologue summarises the moral arguments at the basis of this play, the conflicts of opposing needs and obligations, the individual against the state and divine law opposed to a human law. The prologue, which the chorus does not overhear, sets up...
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