Antigone
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- Slide: 1
- Haemon offers his opinion on the situation of Antigone’s ruling and proposes his father be flexible. Creon insists on her death and refuses to be schooled by his own son.
- Slide: 2
- “In flood time you can see how some trees bend, and because they bend, even their twigs are safe, while stubborn trees are torn up, roots and all” (3.80-83).
- Antigone fearlessly admits her crime of burying Polyneicies to Creon after being caught, stating it was for the laws of God.
- Slide: 3
- “It was not God’s proclamation. That final Justice that rules the world below makes no such laws. Your edict, King, was strong, but all your strength is weakness itself against the immortal unrecorded laws of God” (2.57-61).
- “Iacchus of Thebes heavenly child of Semele bride of the Thunderer! The shadow of plague is upon us: come with clement feet oh come from Parnassus down the long slopes across the lamenting water” (5.12-16).
- The chorus and choragus chant a paean for assistance from the gods in order for mercy to be bestowed on Thebes and evil to be drawn away.
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