Antigone Scene 1

Today, we read Scene 1.

Summary:

• Creon explained his new law: No one may bury Polyneices, the traitorous brother.
• A Sentry (a messenger) shows up and has the horrible job of telling the increasingly agitated Creon that someone has already violated his law and buried the brother.
• Creon reacts badly to the news and asks the Sentry to go find whoever did it. 
• Meanwhile, the Choragus and the Sentry start to question whether the law was a good idea.

Choragus: I have been wondering, King: can it be that the gods have done this? (1.102-103)

Sentry: Are you sure it is my voice [which distresses you], and not your conscience? (1.133)

Antigone burying her brother, Eteocles (the traitor).