Episode 2 Flashcards
The sentry is happy
“second thoughts make liars of us all”
He’s very happy “stroke of luck beyond our wildest hopes, what a joy, there’s nothing like it”
“This is my luck, my prize”
“My lord”
Doesn’t care about Antigone
“Here she is. Take her,question her, cross-examine her to your hearts content. But set me free”
Description of the corps
We brushed the corps clean of the dust
Tries to make him feel uncomfortable
The corpse was slimy going soft, we had our backs to the wind so the stink of him couldn’t hit us
A twisting whirlwind, a great dust storm, a Black Plague of the heavens, tearing the leaves of every tree in sight, choking the air and Sky (the gods are angry) we took our whipping from the gods (punishment)
Antigone’s ritual
she let out a sharp, piercing cry, like a bird returned to an empty nest, all the babies gone
she enacts three libations
Caching her
We closed on the kill like hunters (like those hunting Oedipus)
She denied nothing
How catching her made Antigone feel
It made me ache and laugh in the same breath
It hurts to bring down a friend, but that means less to me than my own skin
Antigone denies nothing
“I did it. I don’t deny a thing”
Antigone’s Justice and god speech
Zeus did not make this proclamation
Justice did not ordain such laws for men
you, a mere mortal, cannot override the gods (hubris) the great unwritten, unshakable traditions that live forever, from the first of time
I wasn’t about to break these laws and face the retribution of the gods
Antigone wishes to die
Die I must, I’ve known it all my life
Who on earth alive in the midst of so much grief as I, could fail to find his death a rich reward?allowing my own mother’s son to rot would have been an agony.
If you think I’m foolish, I’ve been accused of folly by a fool
Leader on her unbendingness
father like daughter, she hasn’t learn to bend before adversity
Creon describes people being unbending
the stiffest stubborn wills fall the hardest
The toughest iron racks and shatters first of all
Spirited, proud, rebellious horses you can break with a light bit
No room for pride in a slave with the master standing by
(but he’s the unbending one)
Why must Creon convict her
I am not the man now, she is the man if this victory goes to her
She’s mocking us
convicts her, she will never escape
Sisters child or closer in blood than all all my blood clustered at my altar she’ll never escape( but she is family)
Accuses Ismene to
hates it when a traitor tries to glorify his crimes
What more does he want other than her execution, asks what the delay is
why does she not want delay
Give me glory! What greater glory could I win than to give my own brother burial
Antigone describes him as a tyrant
These people would praise me too if their lips weren’t locked in fear
calls him a tyrant, with the power to do and say whatever pleases them
Creon says wasn’t Eteocles a brother too, and yet you’re giving his enemy the same honours.
Antigone’s response
Antigone says that Death longs for the same rite for all.
Creon insists that never the same for the patriot and the traitor.
Antigone and CReon on LOve
Antigone
“I was born to join in love, not hate– that is my nature”
Creon
“go down below and love, if love you must–love the dead!” (insensitive)
Creon has sexist motives
While I’m alive no woman is going to lord it over me.”
Creon concerned with keeping power
As Ismene arrives, Creon says the two of you rising up against my throne. (problem with wishing to keep power)
Ismene willing to die and her rejection
“IF she consents”, I did it, I share the guilt and the consequences
Antigone rejects her, her willingness to “make her troubles hers”
Ismene begs Antigone
begs her not to reject her
let me die beside you (seems like a game, doesn’t perhaps fully grasp the implications)
Antigone guards death like some sort of trophy
“never share my dying”
“don’t lay claim to what you never touched” (thinks of it as some sort of achievement, Ismene is being annoying stealing her glory perhaps, death is a reward for the labour)
Why ISmene doesnt want to live
“What do I care for life, cut off from you” (cares more about family than Antigone realises)
Antigone softens
admits that she only gets pain from mocking her
“save yourself. I don’t grudge you your survival”
“I gave myself to death, long ago, so I might serve the dead”
Ismene’s important question to CReon
Ismene then asks Creon a vital question
“you’‘d kill your OWN SON’s bride?” (against family)
Creon’s thought about his son’s bride’s death
Creon states “absolutely” he could always get another bride
ISmene states that never one with a bond “as true, as close” as theirs.
