Antigone
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- "I'll bury my brother- your brother, too, though you refuse! I'll not be found a traitor." (15)
- Antigone and Ismene, Oedipus' daughters, grieve the loss of their two brothers. The sisters debate whether or not they should obey religious rules or the king's commands for various reasons.
- "Madwoman, even when Creon forbids it?" (15)
- Prologue
- King Creon addresses the people of Thebes, stating that of the two princes who were just executed, Eteocles will be appropriately buried, whereas Polyneices will not. Creon makes it illegal for anybody to touch Polyneices or even offer a single prayer for him. The sentry returns later with news of Polyneices' burial. Creon is furious and orders the sentry to find the perpetrator.
- "It has been decreed that in this city he shall be neither buried nor mourned by anyone, but everyone must leave him unburied..." (20)
- Scene 1
- "And I'm saying it! Just now someone has buried the corpse and gone off, sprinkling dust over its flesh and performing the due rites." (22)
- "What did you say? What man has dared to do this?" (22)
- Scene 1
- We learn that Antigone has been imprisoned by Creon in this scene. Creon sentences her to death after discovering that she was caught burying her sibling by the sentry. Creon is lectured by Ismene for wanting to kill his son's fiancée.
- " I did. Why would I not know?. It was clear." (29)
- "And yet you dared to overstep these laws." (29)
- Scene 2
- "Will you really rob your son of this world?"(35)
- "Death himself will stop this wedding for me." (35)
- Scene 2
- Haimon reassures his father of his commitment in the third scene. He informs Haemon that if he marries Antigone, he will be miserable. Creon believes that males should be more robust than women, but Antigone has shown to be an anarchist, contradicting Creon's wishes.
- "Were you not my father, I would call you a fool." (42)
- "You're the slave of a woman, don't chatter at me." (42)
- Scene 3
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