... one day. The audience then is placed in the stoyry by this monologue for it gets a reference to the past of the scene they will see and a reference to the future too. For example, they are told all about Antigone and her family and are told too about her death. That however does not make the play uninteresting but it increases your curiousness to understand what may have happened between the things you were told happened before and the things as a consequence. The tone and the informal language used in this play were very effective because it humanised the characters for the audience. The fact the language is simpler and adapted to our times, the characters turn to be much more realistic for us and understandable than if the words were like the stricktness and confusingness of the real Antigone version. In class, we had to then act a ...

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