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Antigone (508-548)

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You alone out of all these Thebans see it that way.
Antigone
They do, too, but for you they hold their tongues.
Creon
Are you not ashamed that your beliefs differ from theirs?
Antigone
No, there is nothing shameful in respecting your own flesh and blood.
Creon
Was not he your brother too, who died in the opposite cause?
Antigone
A brother by the same mother and the same father.
Creon
Why, then, do you pay a service that is disrespectful to him?
Antigone
The dead man will not support you in that.
Creon
Yes, he will, if you honor him equally with the wicked one.
Antigone
It was his brother, not his slave, who died.
Creon
But he died ravaging this land, while he fell in its defense.
Antigone
Hades craves these rites, nevertheless.
Creon
But the good man craves a portion not equal to the evil’s.
Antigone
Who knows but that these actions are pure to those below?
Creon
You do not love someone you have hated, not even after death.
Antigone
It is not my nature to join in hate, but in love.
Creon
Then, go down to hell and love them
if you must. While I live, no woman will rule me.
526
Enter Ismene from the house, led in by two attendants.
Chorus
Look, here comes Ismene from the palace, shedding the tears of a loving sister. A cloud over her eyes mars her red-flushed face,
and it breaks into rain on her comely cheek.
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Creon
You who were lurking like a viper in my own house and secretly gulping up my life’s blood, while I was oblivious that I was nurturing two plagues, two revolutions against my throne—tell me now, will you also affirm
your share in this burial, or will you forswear all knowledge of it?
Ismene
I performed the deed—as long as she concurs—and I share and carry the burden of guilt.
Antigone
No, justice will not permit you to do this, since you were not willing to help with the deed, nor did I give you a part in it.
Ismene
But now with this sea of troubles around you, I am not ashamed to sail in a sea of suffering at your side.
Antigone
As to whose deed it is, Hades and the dead are witnesses. A friend in words is not the type of friend I love.
Ismene
No, sister, do not strip me of death’s honor,
but let me die with you and make due consecration to the dead.
Antigone
Do not share my death. Do not claim deeds to which you did not put your hand. My death will suffice.
Ismene
And how can I cherish life, once I am deprived of you?

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