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Antigone (549-585)

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Ask Creon. Your concern is for him.
Ismene
Why do you torture me like this, when it does not help you?
Antigone
No, if I mock you, it is to my own pain that I do so.
Ismene
Tell me, how can I help you, even now?
Antigone
Save yourself. I do not grudge your escape.
Ismene
Ah, misery! Will I fall short of sharing your fate?
Antigone
Your choice was to live, it was mine to die.
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Ismene
At least your choice was not made without my protests.
Antigone
One world approved your wisdom, another approved mine.
Ismene
Nevertheless, the offense is identical for both of us.
Antigone
Take heart! You live. But my life has long been
in Death’s hands so that I might serve the dead.
Creon
One of these maidens, I declare, has just revealed her foolishness; the other has displayed it from the moment of her birth.
Ismene
Yes, Creon. Whatever amount of reason nature may have given them does not remain with those in dire straits, but goes astray.
Creon
Yours did, I know, when you chose dire actions with dire allies.
Ismene
What life would there be for me alone, without her presence?
Creon
Do not speak of her presence. She lives no longer.
Ismene
What? You will kill your own son’s bride?
Creon
Why not? There are other fields for him to plough.
Ismene
But not fitted to him as she was.
Creon
I abhor an evil wife for my son.
Antigone
Haemon, dearest! How your father wrongs you!
Creon
Enough! Enough of you and of your marriage!
Chorus
Will you really cheat your son of this girl?
Creon
Death it is who will end these bridals for me.
Chorus
Then it seems that it is resolved that she will die.
Creon
Resolved, yes, for you and by me. To the two Attendants. No more delay! Servants, take them inside! Hereafter they must be women, and not left at large.
For it is known that even the brave seek to flee, when they see Death now closing on their life. Exeunt Attendants, guarding Antigone and Ismene. Creon remains.
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Chorus
Blest are those whose days have not tasted of evil. For when a house has once been shaken by the gods,
no form of ruin is lacking, but it spreads over the bulk of the race, just as, when the surge is driven over the darkness of the deep by the fierce breath of Thracian sea-winds,

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