Antigone Quote Discussion 2 11-4-09

"Turning the wise into fools you twist them off their course and now you have stung us to this strife of father fighting son...Oh, Love..." (Sophocles, 227). Stated by Antistrophe I, a great example of foreshadowing. Antistrophe gives insight into how much the concept of love will affect the rest of the play. Falling in love can greatly change how people think and cause them to make decisions that they wouldn't usually come about. By saying this it is telling us that we will see people acting out of character later in the play because their views on certain things, and people, have changed.Basically, Antistrophe is referring to love as a person and blaming them for making people think "irrationally" and causing Haemon to disobey Creon, which he would otherwise never do.