Anouilh's Antigone Journal 3

Word Choice:
1.During Creon and Antigone's argument Anouilh repeats many words and ideas. Choose a word or idea and discuss how Anouilh uses the term.

2.Sometimes Anouilh uses ambiguous terms, identify how the terms affect your interpretation of characters and their motivations.

Although it wasn't repeated a lot but I find it a significant idea. It's the image of smoking a cigarette, besides having the idea of modernization and how this play was influenced. In the places that Anouilh used cigarette, were explaining the attitude or personality of a character. "... He was weepingwith anguish. And in corner of your father's study, Polynices stood steering and lighting a cigarette."(39). That was Creon speaking and with that cigaretty part added, he wanted to show how Polynices didn't care. How smoking a cigarette was added to the play having a character do it and that person immediately is seen as bad, and doesn't care about what's going on. This gives the reader a totaly new look towards a certain character.