Is Jean Anouilh's Antigone a tragedy or a triumph? This is an assessment of the tragic and trimphant elements within the play 'Antigone'

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…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.