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SAC#2 quotes Flashcards

Quotes

1
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You’ll never bury that body in the grave

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Creon; blindness/sight

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2
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But that man the city places in authority must be obeyed, large and small, right and wrong

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Creon; blindness/sight

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I did not think that your decree was of such weight that they could countermand the laws unfailing and unwritten of the gods, and you a mortal only and a man

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Antigone; pride, arrogance and hubris

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4
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Do as you like, dishonour the laws the gods hold in honour

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Antigone; pride, arrogance and hubris

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Whoever places his friend about the good of his country, he is nothing. I have no use for him

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Creon; pride, arrogance and hubris

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she will be stripped of her rights, her stranger’s rights

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Creon; pride, arrogance and hubris

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Oh it is hard to give in! But it is worse to risk everything for stubborn pride

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Creon; pride, arrogance and hubris

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The mighty words of the proud are paid in full

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Creon; pride, arrogance and hubris

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9
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Did you break the king’s laws, some mad act of defiance

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Chorus; man made law vs natural law

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10
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Gall to break this law

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Creon; man made law vs natural law

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11
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The state is the king!

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Creon; man made law vs natural law

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The city is the king’s - that’s the law

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Creon; man made law vs natural law

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12
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But whoever places his loyalty to the state…I’ll prize that man in death as well as life

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Creon; man made law vs natural law

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13
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What greater glory could I win than to give my own brother a decent burial?

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Antigone; man made law vs natural law

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14
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Protect your rights? When you trample down the honour of the gods?

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Haemon; man made law vs natural law

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14
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Lucky tyrants! Prerequisites of power!

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Antigone; power and tyranny

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He is my brother…no one will convict me ever convict me for a traitor

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Antigone; Political loyalty/filial loyalty

15
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What a splendid king you’d make of a desert island, you and you alone

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Haemon; power and tyranny

15
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And the whole race of tyrants lusts for filthy gain

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Tiresias; power and tyranny

16
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I don’t even exist, I am no one, Nothing.

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Creon; power and tyranny

17
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Let death come quickly and be kind to me

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Creon; power and tyranny

18
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How many griefs our father Oeidipus handed down!

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Antigone; fate and free will

18
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She is the man if this victory goes to her

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Creon; gender

18
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The mighty words of the proud are paid in full

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Chorus; power and tyranny

19
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The ruin will never cease, cresting on and on from one generation on through the race - like a great mounting tide driven on by savage gales

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Chorus; fate and free will

20
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While I’m alive, no woman is going to lord it over me

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Creon; gender

21
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Fool, adolescent fool! Taken in by a woman

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Creon; gender

22
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Never be rated inferior to woman

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Creon; gender

22
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We are women, we are not born to contend with men

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Ismene; gender

23
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We’re underlings ruled by much stronger hands

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Ismene; gender

24
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I would be prepared to die, if only I could slit my mothers throat!

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Electra; gender

25
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I pray he pays in full for it

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Electra; justice and revenge

26
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Grant us victory, if what we ask for is just

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Electra; justice and revenge

27
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You gods, and all seeing justice, you have come at last!

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Electra; justice and revenge

28
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Punish my father’s murders, their blood for his

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Electra; justice and revenge

29
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Now they shall rule in justice…now that they have overthrown the enemies of justice

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Electra; justice and revenge

30
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“[the] gods deals out justice sooner or later. Monstrous is your suffering, but what you did to your husband, heartless woman, gave the gods cause for anger

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Electra; justice and revenge

31
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But you have paid justly for taking their father’s life

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Electra; justice and revenge

32
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I have committed the most terrible of acts

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Electra; repentance and atonement

33
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Mother killer

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Orestes; repentance and atonement

34
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I’m sorry for what I have devised! I let my anger against my husband drive me too far!

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Clytemnestra; repentance and atonement

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