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Examples Of Celebration In Antigone

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A Celebration For The Gods Imagine a world where everyone does as they please and society has no order. Chaos would fill the planet and horrible downfalls will result because rules and laws help keep everything in order. The play Antigone written by Sophocles demonstrates a ruckus in society when King Creon decides to go against the order of the Gods and does not give the body of Polynices a proper burial for his own benefit. Antigone, the sister of Polynices, gets captured by Creon because of her actions of burying him, but after a great amount of persuasion Creon decides to set her free. This scene leads to ode five where the chorus celebrates Creon’s change of thought that will finally make Thebes plague free. Laced with diverse amounts of syntax and diction, ode five easily portrays excitement coming from Thebes and the theme of the gods laws being greater than man's. …show more content…

Repeatedly the chorus calls up Dionysus, the god of wine and festivity, to help the city of Thebes celebrate. Ode five also has an abundance of exclamation points in it, allowing the reader to know that the chorus became very ecstatic at that moment. The exclamation points also gives the chorus a very cheerful tone. The chorus’s joy can also be examined within the stanzas and its structure. The stanzas are broken up into little segments, each pleading to dionysus in various forms to bless Thebes with celebration and dance. The repetition of the word “dance” also appears in the last stanza. The word “dance” gives off a very cheerful and celebratory connotation that the chorus hopes the gods will bring back to Thebes now that Creon began to follow the gods

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