(Anouilh) Antigone Journal 3

The scene which my group will be acting out is the one when Medea kills her two sons and then flies away in her chariot. I will be acting out the lines of the chorus and the boys. The chorus talk of how they believe that Medea was wrong to have murdered her own children. They are motivated to talk out by her actions, leading them to condemn what she has just done. The chorus says, "Woman of stone, heart of iron [...] ready to kill the seed of your hands with the hand that tilled." (pg. 72 line 1279). They show how they believe Medea has become coldhearted and almost not-human because of her actions and they disagree with the approach she is taking in getting back at Jason for what he has done to her.