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  • Essay / Evils Of Hubris In Antigone - 1056

    However, as the play unfolds, the chorus changes, siding with Antigone that following the decrees of the gods is only right, abandoning their pride (Sophocles 41). Nemesis at no point seems to take their actions into account, and while they attempt to advise Creon as senators, not challenge him, siding with Antigone does not bring them into line with her hubris; they support what they consider right, and in a way that honors and reveres what is right, unlike Antigone or Antigone.