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A high proportion of the most dramatic scenes in plays from all eras are scenes written precisely for two characters. Choose such a scene from Anouilh's Antigone and explain what makes it dramatic.
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Monday 23rd February 2004 A high proportion of the most dramatic scenes in plays from all eras are scenes written precisely for two characters. Choose such a scene from Anouilh's Antigone and explain what makes it dramatic. The most dramatic scene in Antigone, a play modernised in 1944 by French playwright Jean Anouilh from Sophocles' ancient, classical Grecian play, is the scene has been selected to analyse in this essay. The scene takes place between the eponymous heroine Antigone and her antagonistic uncle Creon, the authoritarian King of Thebes, when Creon discovers that Antigone, his niece, has been going against his decree in which was stated that no person may try to bury the body of Polynices, which lay outside Thebes' gates; Antigone's brother and the declared enemy of Thebes. The scene is riddled with tension from the beginning. The fact that it is predominantly the interrogation of Antigone by Creon instantly...
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