Is Antigone a tragedy or a triumph         Jean Anouilh's Antigone was first produced in Paris in 1942, it is based on Sophocles' version of the novel, which was written in 442 B.C.E and performed in Ancient Greece. It is a modernist play, which has the effect of highlighting the importance of the themes of the play and lets the audience focus more fully on the tragic and triumphant elements of the play. Antigone was performed …showed first 75 words of 4534 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4534 total…service by writing Antigone than he ever could have done fighting in the trenches, as the play has a didactic purpose. The function of the play is not to tell a story, as that is the chorus's role in the play, the function was to inspire the people of France with a story of a courageous young girl who courageously fought against an evil tyrant and whose cause, like the play, was predominantly a triumph.