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Antigone Quotes Flashcards

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ANTIGONE: The doom reserved for enemies…

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…marches on the ones we love the most.

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ISMENE: No joy or pain has come my way…

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…not since the two of us were robbed of our two brothers.

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ANTIGONE: He is my brother and-…

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…deny it as you will- your brother too.

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ANTIGONE: I will raise a…

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…mound for him, for my dear brother.

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ANTIGONE: But If I had allowed my own mother’s son to rot…

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…an unburied corpse-that would have been an agony!

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ANTIGONE: What greater glory could I win…

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…than to give my own brother decent burial?

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HAEMON: Father, I’m your son…

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…you in your wisdom set my bearings for me-I obey you.

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CREON: That’s how you ought to feel within your heart…

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…subordinate to your father’s will in every way.

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ANTIGONE: But mother and father both lost…

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…in the halls of Death, no brother could ever spring to light again.

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ISMENE: What? You’d bury him…

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…when a law forbids the city?

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ISMENE: I must obey…

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…the ones who stand in power

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ISMENE: think what a death we’ll die…

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…the worst of all if we violate the laws and override the fixed decree of the throne, its power

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ISMENE: I’d do them no dishonor…

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…but defy the city? I’d have no strength for that.

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CREON: nor could I ever make that man…

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…a friend of mine who menaces our country

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CREON: Never at my hands will the traitor…

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…be honored above the patriot. But whoever proves his loyalty to the state-I’ll prize that man in death as well as life.

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CHORUS: When he weaves in the laws of the land…

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… and the justice of the gods that binds his oaths together, he and his city rise high.

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CREON: Once an enemy…

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…never a friend, not even after death

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CREON: When did you last see…

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…the gods celebrating traitors?

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SENTRY: We squinted hard and took…

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…our whipping from the gods.

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ANTIGONE: It wasn’t Zeus…

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…not in the least, who made this proclamation-not to me.

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ANTIGONE: Nor did I think your edict…

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…had such force that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods, the great unwritten, unshakable traditions

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HAEMON: Protect your rights?…

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…when you trample down the honors of the gods?

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ANTIGONE: All my reverence…

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…my reverence for the gods!

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TIRESIAS: The public altars and sacred hearths…

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….are fouled, by the birds and dogs with carrion torn from the corpse, the doomstruck son of Oedipus

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TIRESIAS: And so….

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…the gods are deaf to our prayers

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TIRESIAS: You’ve robbed the gods….

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…below the earth, keeping a dead body here in the bright air, unburied, unsung, unhallowed by the rites

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CHORUS: reverence toward the gods…

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…must be safeguarded

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ISMENE: Remember, we are women…

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…we’re not born to contend with men

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CREON: she is the man…

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….if victory goes to her and she goes free

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CREON: While I’m alive…

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…no woman is going to lord it over me

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CREON: That’s what a man prays for…

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…to produce good sons… dutiful and attentive, so they can pay his enemy back with interest

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CREON: A worthless woman…

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…in your house, a misery in your bed

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CREON: Never let some woman….

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…triumph over us. Better to fall from power, if fall we must, at the hands of a man-never be rated inferior to a woman, never.

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ANTIGONE: Hasn’t Creon graced…

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…one with all the rites, disgraced the other?

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CREON: See that you never…

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…side with those who break my orders.

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CREON: Simple death…

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…won’t be enough for you

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ANTIGONE: Lucky tyrants…

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…the perquisites of power! Ruthless power to do and say whatever pleases them

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HAEMON: What a splendid king….

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…you’d make of a desert island-you and you alone

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TIRESIAS: And the whole race…

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…of tyrants lusts for filthy gain

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CREON: It’s a dreadful thing…

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…to yield… but resist now? Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin? That’s dreadful too.

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ISMENE: I know nothing more…

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….whether our luck’s improved or ruin’s still to come

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CHORUS: Once the gods have rocked….

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…a house to its foundations the ruin will never cease, cresting on and on from one generation on throughout the race

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CHORUS: No withering illness…

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…laid you low, no strokes of the sword-a law to yourself

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CHORUS: We are only…

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…mortals born to die

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MESSENGER: Creon shows the world….

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…that of all the ills affecting men the worst is lack of judgement

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CREON: And the guilt is all mine…

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…can never be fixed on another man, no escape for me. I killed you, I, god help me, I admit it all!

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LEADER: For mortal men…

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…there is no escape from the doom we must endure

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ANTIGONE: Will you lift up….

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…his body with these bare hands and lower it with me?

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ANTIGONE: These laws…

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…I was not about to break them, not out of fear of some man’s wounded pride

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ANTIGONE: They would praise me too…

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…if their lips weren’t locked in fear

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HAEMON: The man in the street….

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…you know, dreads your glance, he’d never say anything displeasing to your face

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CHORUS: But now, even I….

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…would rebel against the king, I would break all bounds when I see this-I fill with tears, I cannot hold them back, not any more

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ANTIGONE: But now, Polynices…

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…because I laid your body out as well, this, this is my reward

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