The chorus, a group of common people who follow the actions of the play
Antigone, waver in their support of either Antigone or Creon, depending on
their actions during a particular part of the story-line. Early in the
play it is evident that they are extremely pro-Creon, but a short time
later they seem to sway into the direction of Antigone and support her
actions. This incongruency about the them, however, was an extremely
interesting feature of this Sophocles drama, causing the reader to
question the reliability of the chorus.
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