total and in Antigone's case should have been beyond family love and bonds. The chorus being the Theban people and therefore the state evidently shares Creons beliefs, but only to a certain extent. They do sympathies with her when she is taken off to her death.
             But now, even I would rebel against the king,
             I would break all bounds when I see this-
             I fill with tears, I cannot hold them back,
             not anymore... I see Anitgone make her way
             to the bridal vault where all are laid to rest.
             But she doesn't really take them seriously. How could she, they, the city, have been behind Creon's word sentencing her to death and now they give her comforting words when the tragic moment of her death actually comes. They do in the end advise Creon against her killing after
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